Course overview
In this course, students will study human development and motor behaviour from a lifelong perspective. Students will develop knowledge of the transactional model of human development and its relationship to teaching; human development terminology; hourglass model of motor development; infant and childhood physical growth and structural changes; influences on pre- and post-natal growth and development; emergence of motor behaviour from infancy to adolescence; visual perceptual development and its influence on motor behaviour from birth to adolescence; sexual health and relationships behaviour in the primary and middle years.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the characteristics and principles of human growth, development and motor behaviour from birth to adolescence
- Understand and describe the complex process of change in human development and motor behaviour that emerges from the interaction of heredity, task requirements and the environment as it relates to teaching/parenthood
- Describe key terms associated with the study of human growth and development such as cephalocaudal, sensitive periods, fundamental motor skills
- Explain how the periods of life are inextricably linked with the phases of motor development through the Hourglass Model of motor development
- Discuss aspects of human growth and motor development for the period birth to adolescence of the lifespan
- Demonstrate teaching skills in the developmentally appropriate activities for the early, primary, and middle years of schooling