What is the difference between Early Childhood Education and Child Development?

Question

What is the difference between the 2 college majors?

Answer 1

This is Early Childhood Education;

Early childhood spans the human life from birth to age 8. Infants and toddlers experience life more holistically than any other age group. Social, emotional, intellectual, language, and physical lessons are not separated by the infant. Adults who are most helpful to young children interact in ways that understand that the child is learing from the whole experience, not just that part of the experience to which the adult gives attention. "Janet Gonzalez-Mena"

Although early childhood education does not have to occur in the absence of the parent or primary caregiver, this term is sometimes used to denote education by someone other than these the parent or primary caregiver. Both research in the field and early childhood educators view the parents as an integral part of the early childhood education process. Early childhood education takes many forms depending on the theoretical and educational beliefs of the educator or parent.

Other terms that are often used interchangeably with "early childhood education" are "early childhood learning," "early care," and "early education." Much of the first two years of life are spent in the creation of a child's first "sense of self" or the building of a first identity. Because this is a crucial part of children's makeup-how they first see themselves, how they think they should function, how they expect others to function in relation to them-early care must ensure that in addition to carefully selected and trained caregivers, links with family, home culture, and home language are a central part of program policy. If care becomes a substitute for, rather than a support of, family, children will often incorporate a less-than-positive sense of who they are and whre they come from because of their infant care experience.

Early childhood education or learning focus on children learning through play.


This is Child Development;

There are different developmental domains of children which all relate to each other:

Physical development - Concerning the physical growth and the development of both gross(eg. walking) and fine motor(eg. finger movement) control of the body.
Perception and sensory development - How a child functions using the senses and the ability to process the information gained.
Communication and language development - Using visual and sound stimuli, especially in the acquisition of language, also in the exchange of thoughts and feelings.
Cognitive development - Concerning how the individual thinks and react.
Emotional Development - Concerning children's increasing awareness and control of their feelings and how does he react to these feelings in a given situation.
Social Development - Concerning the child's identity, their relationship with others, and understanding their place within a social environment.


So all in all, one(ECE) is a infant-age 8 gets an education within their age class, just like a type of school, daycare, ect.

And CD on the other hand lets the child develop necc. skills to perform everyday tasks in life once older. Social, Emotional and other type of skills.

Answer 2

I have never heard of both of these being offered at the same college so if they are indeed offered as 2 seperate majors at the same college the Early Childhood Education is for those that plan on going forward and getting their Teaching credentials to teach in Elementary to Highschool Levels and the Child Development are for those that want to teach in nursery-Preschool.

If they are offered at different colleges it is just a matter of names. No difference. Same degree just with different wording. They basically mean the same thing as a Mahor title.

If it is courses you are talking about- Edication goes into the Education and what you teach the child and the development is simply that development and ages and stages of a child.

Answer 3

I appreciate the essay on early childhood education vs. childhood development/, what im having some difficulty understanding is this: as an infant you say that they are not capable of distinguishing experiences and that you have to look at the totality factor of what they are picking up in their development. in other words, they lack the capacity to separate emotional events or experiences from those that are purely intellectual,
now, my question is at what point are they capable of compartmentalizing these individual experiences, when can they recognize an experience as being solely social, emotional, etc etc. also, isn't it true that for the first year or two, the primary teacher are the parents. and perhaps, we should focus a lot more attention on educating the parents on just how signicicant their roles are in shaping their childs development.

Answer 4

Early childhood education is where you learn and than teach preschoolers 3-5. Child development is the study of all children at different stages and ages. You need to take these courses to learn how to become involved in early childhood ed

Answer 5

I got my degree in Early Childhood Education or ECE. This allows me to teach in a accredited school district. Child development classes are different, they don't actually give you a state certificate to teach.

Answer 6

For a person who wants to work at a daycare center with specifically infants and toddlers, would major in early childhood education correct? At least, that's what the providers said when I job shadowed them.

Answer 7

They refer to the same information. Early childhood education, what are the best resources?

Answer 8

In my opinion you need to understand the developmental process of children very well before you can teach them. It is the environment of the child that helps create the way a child will learn, and understanding these dynamics on the physical, mental , emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels will help to understand the various ways to teach the children.

Answer 9

Not sure, but I gues Child development covers older children too