Lifespan Development

1.5 credits · Undergraduate

Introduces diverse perspectives of child and youth wellbeing and growth as a basis for praxis with children, youth and families. Critically examines development as well as the concepts of child/childhood, youth and adolescence and adult/adulthood. Interrogates the settler colonial, racist, ableist and cisheteronormative practices shaping ideas of development. Promotes critical thinking about health equity and the relevancy of different perspectives to the health and wellbeing of diverse child populations.