CHLD 114: Home-Child-Community Relations

Citrus College Course Outline of Record

Citrus College Course Outline of Record
Heading Value
Effective Term: Fall 2025
Credits: 3
Total Contact Hours: 54
Lecture Hours : 54
Lab Hours: 0
Hours Arranged: 0
Outside of Class Hours: 108
Total Student Learning Hours: 162
Transferable to CSU: Yes
Transferable to UC: No
Grading Method: Standard Letter

Catalog Course Description

The processes of socialization focusing on the interrelationship of family, school, and community. Examines the influence of multiple societal contexts. Explores the role of collaboration between family, community, and schools in supporting children’s development, birth through adolescence. 54 lecture hours.

Course Objectives

  • Identity how the child develops within a system and is influenced by multiple factors.
  • 2. Identify how the child develops within a system and is influenced by multiple factors of socialization, including the educational, political, and socioeconomic impacts on children and families.
  • Describe contemporary social issues and their effects on families and children.
  • Compare and contrast diverse family characteristics, configurations, perspectives, and parenting styles.
  • Describe strategies that empower families and encourage family involvement in children's development.
  • Evaluate the impact of one’s own experiences on their relationships with children, families, and the community.
  • Describe legal requirements and ethical responsibilities of professionals working with all children and families.
  • Identify community resources to support young children’s learning and development and to support families’ needs.

Major Course Content

  1. Theoretical Frameworks of Socialization
  2. Interrelationship of Family, School, and Community as Agents of Socialization
  3. Influences on Socialization  
    1. Family
      1. Family Characteristics/Configurations
      2. Parenting Styles
      3. Culture, Tradition, Values
      4. Socio-economic status
      5. Factors contributing to resiliency
      6. Language
    2. School and Educational Systems

      1. School and Education

        i. School Systems

        1. Types of schooling

        2. Educational practices

        3. School and family partnerships

        4. Socioeconomic variations

        5. Institutional policies that perpetuate systemic racism

        ii. Teachers and Caregivers

        1. Influence of teachers’ personal experiences, biases, and perspectives

        2. Legal requirements and ethical responsibilities

        3. Relationships with families

        4. Guidance and discipline strategies

        5. Classroom Community

        a. Peer relationships

        b. Environments

        6. Impact of factors outside the classroom on children’s well-being

    3. Community
      1. Influences of the community as a social force
        1. 1. Neighborhoods, Demographics,  Infrastructure
      2. Community Agencies and Referral Systems

        1. 1. Housing and food insecurity, Trauma, Abuse, Foster care/child welfare, Incarceration, Medically Fragile

      3. Accessing Specialized Services and Support for Children and Families
      4. Collaboration and Partnerships
  4. Impact of Contemporary Social Issues and Risk Factors Such As Stereotypes, Gender, Ability, Language, Culture, Racial Identity and Ethnicity, Family Configuration, Socio-Economic Status
  5. Strategies for Empowering Families
    1. Communication
    2. Partnerships
    3. Advocacy

Suggested Reading Other Than Required Textbook

The instructor may provide students with a list of selected books relevant to parenting and teaching preschool and school-age children in a multicultural setting.

Examples of Required Writing Assignments

Students are required to prepare a two-page report on an agency that provides support services to families with children facing issues and/or problems such as food insecurity, drug dependency, immigration status, etc. The report must identify, describe, and evaluate the agency.

Examples of Outside Assignments

Students will make make meaningful learning connections to course topics of study. Learning connections involve students making topic-to-self, topic-to-others and/or topic-to-world links that allow ample opportunity to critically think about, process and apply concepts and theory which aids comprehension. For example, when using Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, students can be engaged in identifying microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and/or chronosystem influences on their own development during childhood.

Instruction Type(s)

Lecture, Online Education Lecture