Child Development

Running head: CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Child Development
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Diamond, A., & Whitington, V. (2015). Studying early brain development: Educators'
reports about their learning and its applications to early childhood policies and
practices. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(3), 11-19.
The study done in this paper is aimed at closing the gap in the literature that exists with
examining the development of a child needs to be done from a perspective of both Health and
Education to ensure that a wholesome study can be done. 10 years of literature has been
dedicated to studying children’s early development with respect to either abuse or stresses at
home or with the respect of mental illness, it has not be studied what benefits these children
could have if their caregivers were able to assess the children’s mental situation with respect
to how stresses at home may cause various types of mental illnesses. The research done in
this paper is on the basis of the student’s remarks and comments after they have studied the
length of a course called “Brain development in the Early Years”, where this course does
exactly what the aim of this research is and then asks a group of 45 students how they felt the
change in syllabus would help them in their future practice. These students were enrolled in
the University of South Australia. This change in syllabus contends towards the addition of
neurology findings into the syllabus to see how the brain activity of a child fares when they
experience stress from their external environment. The data for this study was collected
through online discussion where the students enrolled in the course would write their
evaluation of the content taught to them, and how they think that it would be beneficial for
them to use this way of integrating two principles to help a child. After the length of the
course, majority of the students had said that the course was able to strengthen their capacity
in being able to discuss the length of the child’s development to their families in order to
better assist them in helping in the process. They also believe that when parents are able to
have stable and supportive relationships with their child’s caregivers, they are better able to
understand the information that is being provided to them. Limitations of this study were