ECED 4220 - Understanding Children Beyond Behavior

Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Description: This course provides a foundation for understanding and engaging with children’s behavior and needs in school, home, and community settings, toward new and relational understandings of children, child development, and difference. While studying theories and research from fields of neuroscience, psychoanalysis, Disability Studies in Education, and critical perspectives in early childhood education, students will practice therapeutic techniques for observation and engagement with children and families.