Lifelong personal development

lephy1346  2025-2026  Louvain-la-Neuve

Lifelong personal development
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3.00 credits
22.5 h
Q1

  This learning unit is not being organized during year 2025-2026.

Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
  • Age and life events as key variables in understanding lifelong development 
  • The key stages in the evolution of psychomotor factors (e.g. gross and fine motor skills, body schema, laterality, perceptual, spatial and temporal organisation) and in the cognitive and socio-affective development of an individual throughout life; 
  • The interrelationship between the different dimensions of lifelong development; 
  • The effects of PSA on development throughout life The importance of age-related characteristics and life events as conditions for PSA, its regularity and changes in it throughout life 
    
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

  • Describe and identify the main developmental characteristics (child, adult and older person) related to a person's age (1.1, 1.3, 3.1, 3.4, 9.1). 
  • Refer to knowledge of development across the lifespan to understand a person's age-related behaviour and to understand age-appropriate intervention (1.1, 1.3, 3.1, 3.4, 9.1) 
  • Explain the importance of life events in a person's development and in the regularity of their PSA practice. (3.1, 3.4, 9.1) 
 
Other information
This course is reserved for FSM students. Access is possible to other UCLouvain students on the basis of an application to be submitted to the course coordinator.
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in Motor skills : General