Child Dev Appl to EC Practice

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Child Development Applied to Early Childhood Practice: This course will provide an examination of the psychological and psychosocial bases of early childhood as they relate to educational practice with young children, birth to age 8. It focuses on young children's physical, cognitive, communicative, social and emotional development--both as contributors to, and as consequences of, early learning experiences. Early learning will be examined in relation to biological factors, child and family factors, program/ schooling factors and social factors, particularly in diverse bilingual education settings.