1. Identify the child development theory you most support and explain it in detail. Include relevant details that support your understanding of young children’s characteristics and needs. Constructivism is a theory associated with Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Its maid idea was that knowledge was constructed through ones experience and build on from prior knowledge. The construction that the theory name speaks of is learning (Hein‚ 1991). This theory asserts that knowledge comes from personal experiences
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Children and young people develop in 5 main areas. Physical Development: Changes in shape‚ size and physical maturity of the body‚ including physical abilities‚ coordination and fine and gross motor skills. Intellectual Development: This is the learning and use of language: the ability to reason‚ problem-solve and organize ideas. This is related to the physical growth of the brain. Social Development: This is process of gaining knowledge and skills needed to successfully interact with
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A young adult is generally a person between the ages of 19 and 30. This stage involves the transition from adolescence to adulthood. In modern societies‚ young adults in their late teens and early 20s encounter a number of issues as they finish school and begin to hold full-time jobs and take on other responsibilities of adulthood. In the late teens and early 20s‚ young adults become individuals and will set themselves apart. Young adults will strive to become independent from parents‚ take responsibility
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Stages of child development contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Birth to one year 4 3. One to three years 7 4. Three to five years 9 5. Five to eight years 10 6. Eight to twelve years 12 7. Twelve to sixteen years 13 8. Sixteen to nineteen years 14 Bibliography 15 Introduction What is child development? Development is the acquiring of skills in all aspects of a child’s life‚ from birth through to adulthood. There are different areas of child development
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Learning Stages of Children " The Cognitive Theory" Jacqueline Krantz College Composition Kaplan University Prof. Cosgrove In Early Child Development‚ childcare givers should know the specific stages of children from birth to around 11yrs old. Piaget suggested that there were four major cognitive stages in logical development‚ corresponding to four successive forms of knowledge. During each of these stages‚ children were hypothesized to think and reason in a different way. These stages
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Lisa Oswin Outcome 1.2 Describe with examples how to behave appropriately for a child or young person‚s stage of development. When working with a child in nursery we can act appropriately for their age by being animated and enthusiastic when talking to them‚ we can also sit down and play games with them. When they are upset or they have hurt them selves we can comfort them by putting an arm around them or sitting them on our knee. When talking to them
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Child and Adolescent Development The development of child and adolescents covers a large selection of human efforts that attempts to understand why a person acts the way he or she does‚ grows the way he‚ or she grows‚ and thinks the way he or she thinks. Human development has been studied since the beginning of psychology‚ in which the work of Sigmund Freud has been predominantly influential. Freud was the father of psychodynamics and the first to study human development and the inner workings
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Children and young people’s development in the orphanage how did the good and the bad experiences influence their holistic development? Many influences contribute to a child’s development and behaviour some children will have a problem like for example a disability where they cannot speak or write or walk and some will have behavioural issues in some families there are issues of money and family problems or abuse which will then lead the parents to put the child in an orphanage. There was a
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Assignment 331 Understanding child and young person development Task C Report There are many different methods of monitoring/observing and recording children and young people behaviour and performance. There are two types of assessment formative and summative Formative assessment: There are many observations and assessment methods that we use to record children’s development and they will be on going. This is what is called formative assessment‚ which means even though you get to know
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or repeating words or sounds • Speaking with expression in a clear voice‚ using pitch‚ volume and intonation to support meaning. Language – The method of communication between people. It can either be spoken or written (or in the case of a deaf person‚ hand signs)‚ consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. But not all language is verbal or written‚ any nonverbal method of expression or communication is still language‚ such as facial expressions and hand or arm gestures
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