Outcomes
In order to successfully complete this course, the student will:
1. Describe the influences of culture, class, and family life on children’s development, behavior, and learning.
2. Explain cultural, class, and gender diversity in family structure and dynamics, and the historical, economic, and political sources of those variations.
3. Apply research on family diversity to the resolution of problems of school-family discontinuity and the establishment of collaborative relationships with parents.
4. Examine the concepts of parental support in education.
5. Determine strategies for developing more culturally sensitive, collaborative relationships with families.
6. Compare the risk factors, protective factors, and multiple stressors influencing families and children, including poverty, substance abuse, community violence, and child abuse and neglect.
7. Describe the importance of attachment, its cultural and societal influences, and the ways it can be nurtured in the classroom.
8. Describe the influence of culture and bilingualism on language development, communication styles, and interpersonal interactions.
9. Demonstrate how cultural diversity in child development and family life influences the planning of instruction.