Child Psychology Level 3
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Are you fascinated by psychology? Engaged by children's behaviour? Then our child psychology course should prove invaluable. It starts with exploring the subject of psychology, looking at children within the family context and moving on to look at both physical and mental child development. This course would be ideal for anyone working with, or planning to work with children. It would also provide valuable insights for any parent.
Understanding the reasons for the behaviour of children can help your parenting skills, enabling you to become a better parent or carer. This programme is designed for people who wish to gain an understanding of principles, theory and practice of Child Psychology. I…
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Are you fascinated by psychology? Engaged by children's behaviour? Then our child psychology course should prove invaluable. It starts with exploring the subject of psychology, looking at children within the family context and moving on to look at both physical and mental child development. This course would be ideal for anyone working with, or planning to work with children. It would also provide valuable insights for any parent.
Understanding the reasons for the behaviour of children can help your parenting skills, enabling you to become a better parent or carer. This programme is designed for people who wish to gain an understanding of principles, theory and practice of Child Psychology. If you are a child-minder, nursery worker, parent, teacher or a baby-sitter, then this fascinating course is an excellent way to gain an insight as to how a child's mind works and develops.
At UK Open Learning we pride ourselves on our friendly and supportive tutors. Your tutor support will start as soon as you receive your course and will be valid for 12 months. All our tutors are highly qualified with extensive experience in supporting distance learning students. You contact your tutor via email and they are responsible for marking assignments answering your questions and guiding you through the course to ensure you are ready for your examinations.
No previous knowledge is required to study on this course. This course does not assume that you have previously studied psychology or child care courses.
We recommend you spend approximately 110 hours of your time studying for the NCFE Level 3 Child Psychology Award. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 2 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 4 hours a week you could complete it in six months.
Unit 1 – Child Development: What is Child Psychology? - Psychology As a Science - Research Methods - Underlying Debates in Child Psychology; nature, nurture and personality. Unit 2 – Social Development and the Family: Child's sense of self and personality – Attachment - Privation, deprivation, institutionalisation - Parenting styles and effects on child development. Unit 3 - Social Development: Social interaction, learning and play - Gender development (social and cognitive theories)- Moral development (social and cognitive theories) - Pro- and anti-social behaviour. Unit 4 – Cognitive Development: Development of sensory perception -Language development and acquisition -Cognitive development - Measured intelligence.
The course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home. Students receive course manual, assignments and study guide plus tutor support by post and email. We will send the full course out by courier and we suggest students read through the course like a book, completing the assignments which then get sent to the tutor by e-mail for marking. There is no word count for these assignments however you must prove to the tutor that you have fully understood the questions and one sentence answers will be rejected and you will be asked to re-submit them.
NCFE is recognised as an awarding body by the qualification regulators for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The regulators are the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator (Ofqual) in England, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) in Wales and the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) in Northern Ireland.
This course is marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor following NCFE guidelines. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.
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