PA 5413 is also offered in Fall 2023
PA 5413 is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2015 | PA 5413 Section 001: Early Childhood and Public Policy (61133)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 30
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- State/federal/int'l policies/legislation touching first 5 years of child's life. Family, community, institutional roles in promoting children's social/cognitive/emotional development. Health, mental health, poverty, special needs, economic/social justice. Part of Early Childhood Pol cert. prereq: Grad or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- This is the cornerstone course for the Early Childhood Policy certificate at the U of M (http://www.hhh.umn.edu/degrees/certificate/EarlyChildhoodPolicy.html). See Course Guide for more information about 5413.
- Class Description:
- PA 5431 Early childhood and public policy will be taught in Spring 2015 by Momo Hayakawa. Momo has a PhD in Child Development from the University of Minnesota and currently works as a research scientist at the Human Capital Research Collaborative, where she is involved in the implementation and evaluation of a preschool through third grade educational intervention targeted toward children from economically-disadvantaged backgrounds. Within the field of early childhood education programs, she is particularly interested in examining the predictors and impacts of parent involvement and engagement within a school-family-community partnership. She has also supported the implementation of a parent program within the Midwest Child-Parent Center intervention program across 30 schools in 3 districts, working with principals, teachers, community liaisons, and various school staff to implement a culturally sensitive evidence-based program. Humphrey School and Institute of Child Development faculty Art Rolnick, Judy Temple and Arthur Reynolds will participate in the class on various dates. Invited guests will include members of the policy, research, and advocacy community. PA 5431 is a required course for students seeking the University of Minnesota's Early Childhood Policy Certificate. All interested students, however, are invited to register. Class time will consist of lectures, discussion, invited speakers, small group activities and student presentations. Description: How can public policy improve the lives of children and families? Research and policy aimed at this goal require an in-depth understanding of how and why children develop the way they do. To what extent do governmental policies that affect children and families reflect the knowledge developmental scientists have about factors influencing child development? This course is designed to provide an intensive overview of the science of child development, with an emphasis on young children. Students will come away with an understanding of key factors in healthy development and understand how science informs public policy. This course will highlight context and use an ecological approach (e.g. family, school, community) to child development as a foundation for analyzing programs and policies for children and their families. Students will become acquainted with ecological theories of child development and with related research and tools to measure child development. Students will then draw on these theories and research studies to analyze current federal, state, and local programs and policies aimed to reduce childhood poverty and child neglect/maltreatment, and promote child health /mental health and school readiness. Students will write a major term paper in which they will use theory and research on child development to analyze a program or policy of choice.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/61133/1153
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/hayak006_nsmerill_PA5413_Spring2016.pdf (Spring 2016)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2014
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