Child Development and Learning Theories
Final Project PS 220
Urie Bronfenbrenner has provided a comprehensive system for analyzing developmental patterns in children. His theory suggests that in order to understand children’s development, we must have a broad view of the inter-related contexts in which the child is developing. He believes that we need to look at the impact of these symbiotic systems that influence children's development. These systems include the family of the child and expand the analysis to the school, friends, neighborhood, jobs, and larger social system that the child lives in. Bronfenbrenner's theory gives us tools to describe how all of these systems interact with one another to explain how some children end up as criminals or engage in risk-taking behaviors. When babies are in infancy, they are changing from being totally dependent on caregivers to learning to walk, to talk, to play alongside others, and are realizing they are their individual selves. When children enter early childhood, they continue to improve their large and small motor skills as they run and move more smoothly. They also grow mentally and socially as they enter school and other places where they interact with children. During middle childhood, children continue to grow and improve physically, while also growing mentally as they attend school. They maintain friendships in large same-sex groups and begin forming ideas about gender roles and jobs. During adolescence, people go through puberty as their bodies mature and become capable to reproduce. Teens attempt to assert their individual identity while still needing rules and limits to continue to help them make good life decisions. During later adolescence, young adults begin the tasks of finding a life calling or job and of finding or creating their own next-generation.
Final Project PS 220
His theory includes microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem and chromo system. Depression is one major developmental issue No single cause of depression
Urie Bronfenbrenner has provided a comprehensive system for analyzing developmental patterns in children. His theory suggests that in order to understand children’s development, we must have a broad view of the inter-related contexts in which the child is developing. He believes that we need to look at the impact of these symbiotic systems that influence children's development. These systems include the family of the child and expand the analysis to the school, friends, neighborhood, jobs, and larger social system that the child lives in. Bronfenbrenner's theory gives us tools to describe how all of these systems interact with one another to explain how some children end up as criminals or engage in risk-taking behaviors. When babies are in infancy, they are changing from being totally dependent on caregivers to learning to walk, to talk, to play alongside others, and are realizing they are their individual selves. When children enter early childhood, they continue to improve their large and small motor skills as they run and move more smoothly. They also grow mentally and socially as they enter school and other places where they interact with children. During middle childhood, children continue to grow and improve physically, while also growing mentally as they attend school. They maintain friendships in large same-sex groups and begin forming ideas about gender roles and jobs. During adolescence, people go through puberty as their bodies mature and become capable to reproduce. Teens attempt to assert their individual identity while still needing rules and limits to continue to help them make good life decisions. During later adolescence, young adults begin the tasks of finding a life calling or job and of finding or creating their own next-generation.
Final Project PS 220
His theory includes microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem and chromo system. Depression is one major developmental issue No single cause of depression