Learning outcomes and content

Student

Student

  • familiarizes with the significance of the family in the child’s development, growth and learning
  • understands the linkages of time and context in the formation of family
  • identifies the phenomena and processes in becoming a parent from individual and societal viewpoints
  • knows the central theories concerning the family, parenting, parenthood and education
  • is able to examine the family from multidisciplinary perspective
  • understands the significance of the cooperation with a family and professional’s role in that cooperation
  • is able to consider the influence of children’s special needs and other  possible stressful events on parenting and parenthood
  • understands theoretical concepts and models which are related to the everyday family life and parenthood, and can adapt them also in practice

Content

  • definitions of the family and manifold families
  • family from point of view of different sciences
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    results and views of the family study

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    interaction, cooperation and partnership between parents and professionals in education

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    family and home as contexts and learning environments

 

Children, Parents and Grandparents