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ROLE OF THE TEACHER IN FACILITATING DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN Unbelievably, you as a teacher can really transform the life of a child. Let us now explore a teacher’s role in facilitating different dimensions of development of children. While teaching, whenever…
HOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF DEVELOPMENT We can understand this interrelationship with the help of following examples: (i) A physically unhealthy person is unable to perform one’s duties to oneself, family and community. (ii) A child under emotional strain is likely to…
Theory of Psychosocial Development- Erik Erikson Erik Erikson (1963, 1972) described a series of eight ‘psychosocial’ stages in which our selfhood, independence, identity and self-worth may be developed or crushed, depending on how we resolve issues and interact with others…
Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development Case Study: Atul was not prepared for his Physics Exam, so he wrote some important formulae on a slip of paper which he put in his pocket before the test. Just before the test began, the…
Piaget and Moral Reasoning Before we try to understand Piaget’s concept of moral reasoning, let us consider two illustrations. Case Study: Rajat is a very young boy. His younger brother is very hungry, but Rajat has no money left after buying…
Four Stages of Cognitive Development According to Piaget’s theory, children progress through a sequence of four major developmental stages: (a) the sensorimotor stage of infancy- involving the senses and motor activity; (b) the preoperational stage of early childhood- the stage…
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Piaget’s Basic Tendencies in Thinking Piaget identified that children actively construct their own cognitive worlds. To make sense of the world, they organize their experiences and adapt their thinking to include new information. Organization is…
Cognitive Development Does a child’s cognition refer merely to the achievements in academics? Is there any role of cognition in developing other dimensions of a child’s personality? Child’s cognitive development forms the foundation of many other developments like language, social,…
Emotional Development Emotion has been defined differently as ‘a stage of agitation’, ‘disturbance of equilibrium’, ‘intense random and disorganized response to a stimulus’. In modern life, emotions demand greater understanding because of their pervasive effects on behaviour, personality and health.…
Characteristics of Physical Development During childhood there are changes in a child’s height, weight and body proportion. The pace of this growth is more in later childhood (7-12 years) than in early childhood stage (3-6 years). Legs lengthen rapidly and there…
Physical Development Prior to the concept of physical development, let us imagine a process. Consider a newborn baby. Right now s/he has no control over her/his movements, but within 18 months s/he will be walking, in another year running, and…
Looking back at our lives, we have memories that remind us about the changes we have faced over time and it is a fact that humans grow and change throughout their entire lifespan. For example, Riya is just now learning…
CONCEPT OF THE DIMENSIONS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT Looking back at our lives, we have memories that remind us about the changes we have faced over time and it is a fact that humans grow and change throughout their entire lifespan.…
Socio-cultural perspective emphasizes the role of culture and social interaction in the process of child development. Lev Vygotsky, the propounder of socio-cultural perspective, focuses that a child’s thinking does not develop in a vacuum but rather is influenced by the…
The goal of developmental cognitive neuroscience is to know how brain function gives rise to mental processes such as logical thinking, reasoning, and vision. This approach looks at cognitive development through the lens of brain processes. ‘Developmental cognitive neuroscience is…
Information-Processing Approach Information-Processing approach traces the ways individuals manipulate information, monitor it and strategize about the information. As this approach is built from Piagetian research, it is also known as Neo-Piagetian approach. It explains how the thinking process of children…
Piagetian Approach or Cognitive Developmental Approach Famous cognitive psychologist, Jean Piaget proposed an important theory of cognitive development. This perspective focuses on how children construct their understanding of the world as they pass through four stages of cognitive development through…
Cognitive Perspective In the cognitive developmental perspective, we will discuss three approaches related with cognitivedevelopment. They are: Piagetian Approach or Cognitive Developmental Approach; Information-Processing Approach; and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Approach Piagetian Approach or Cognitive Developmental Approach Famous cognitive psychologist, Jean…
Bronfenbrenner Ecological Model To understand the life course of a child and how that child interacts with her /his environment. In the 1970s, Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005) developed the ecological viewpoint to explain how all aspects of the environment affect the child and…
Bioecological Perspective To understand the life course of a child and how that child interacts with her /his environment. In the 1970s, Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005) developed the ecological viewpoint to explain how all aspects of the environment affect the child…