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ECE 012 - Children at Risk and Their Education

Faculty of Education · Pre-School Teaching · Undergraduate

ECTS: 4 T+P+L: 2+0+0 Field Education Elective
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Latife KABAKLI ÇİMEN

Course Objective

To provide the students with the risk factors and to make the planning, implementation and evaluation

Course Content

Risk factors, groups of children at risk, divorced family children, single-parent children, children in need of protection, children infected with crime, children in developmental terms, neglected and abused children, socio-economically disadvantaged children, critical elements in the education of these children, measures, the projects implemented in Turkey and other countries for the education of children at risk

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Students list groups of children at risk.
  2. Students describe and classify the characteristics and trends of street children.
  3. Students explain the characteristics and tendencies of working children.
  4. Students explain the characteristics and tendencies of divorced family children.
  5. Students explain the characteristics and tendencies of criminal children.
  6. Students explain the characteristics and trends of socio-economically disadvantaged children.
  7. Students explain the characteristics and tendencies of single parent children.
  8. Students explain the characteristics and tendencies of children in need of protection.

Core Area Distribution

(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%100

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussion

Assessment & Evaluation

Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)14228
Out of Class Study Period14456
Midterm177
Quiz000
Assignment000
Practice000
Final199

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1Introduction to the courseSyllabus
2Groups of children at riskRelated sections of the book
3Children workingRelated sections of the book
4Street childrenRelated sections of the book
5Divorced family childrenRelated sections of the book
6One-parent childrenRelated sections of the book
7Children in need of protectionRelated sections of the book
8Midterm ExamMidterm Exam
9Children involved in crimeRelated sections of the book
10Neglected and abused childrenRelated sections of the book
11Developmentally at risk of childrenRelated sections of the book
12Characteristics and trainings of socio-economically disadvantaged childrenRelated sections of the book
13Critical elements in the education of these children, measures to be takenRelated sections of the book
14Projects implemented in Turkey and other countries for the education of children at risk.Related sections of the book
15General evaluationRelated sections of the book