202 The Learner in the Educational Context: Development and Diversity. This course helps students develop insight into the development of the mind, identity, and perspective of all learners, including multiple domains of diversity and many alternate ways of being, doing, and seeing, including what is typically labeled as exceptionality. Students explore and analyze psychological, physical, social, cultural, and moral/spiritual facets of development as well as their interplay with the social environment of the learner and their impacts on the classroom. Through lectures, readings, class assignments, field experiences, and case study projects the class examines psychological, educational, biological, and socio-cultural theory through the lens of a Reformed Christian perspective. This course must be satisfactorily completed as a condition of Education program admission. Evaluation in this course is based on the case study, field placement, and assessment of other written products. Prerequisite: Education 101. D. Isom, R. Sjoerdsma.

344 Early Childhood Education: Field Experience. This course is a field experience in two early childhood settings that meet state requirements for the endorsement. This course provides for analysis of teaching methods, materials, and classroom organization as they relate to the early childhood setting. Prerequisites: Education 236, 337, 339, and Sociology 304. Y. Van Ee.