we work with children and current practice is affected by theories of development which are written by many physcologists who have studied children and ways in which they develop. They have many varied ideas about how children learn. The physcologists have proposed different theories that they claim to explain children’s learning and how important the nature versus nurture argument is. Some of the physcologists and their theories are outlined in this essay. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Jean Piaget’s
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Children Need to Play Tracy R. Collins Early Childhood Education Capstone ECE 430 Instructor Kathryn Shuler November 8‚ 2010 All children need to play it is an integral part of learning and coping with the realities of everyday life. While children need physical activity to stay healthy and fit they also need unstructured‚ child centered‚ imaginative play that they control. Many parents today enroll their children in as many structured activities as possible everything from art classes
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Describe‚ analyse and evaluate how psychological theory can support individuals with additional needs within an environment. The wide range of Special educational needs (SEN) ‚ meaning schools have to be adaptable and diverse to cater for the wide range of additional needs. This essay will briefly describe the range of SEN and outline how historical findings‚ government strategies and different psychological theories have changed the way SEN are approached. Types of SEN: ‘Autism was first described
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Piaget’s theory of learning for cognitive development says children create a schema based on their experiences‚ when something unexpected happens to the child‚ the child will adapt the schema to include the new information. Based on this theory early years schools have a child centred teaching approach. Teachers will look at the children’s needs and plan activities accordingly. Piaget’s theory has also influenced the way professionals manage children’s behaviour. For example the rewards or incentives
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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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There are many different theories of development that help us to understand children’s behaviour‚ reactions and ways of learning. All equally important as they influence practice. To begin with there is Piaget’s constructivist theories which look at the way in which children seem to be able to make sense of their world as a result of their experiences and how they are active learners. He also suggested that as children develop so does their thinking. Piaget’s work has influenced early years settings
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Vignette on Theories No two children are ever the same and every child will develop in their own particular way. Just like how every child is different‚ people are also different in how they view the raising and developing of their children. Some parents believe in being strict and other parent in a more lenient way. There are many different theories on child development but among the most important are those from Freud‚ Piaget‚ Vygotsky‚ and Erickson. All of these people helped develop theories and stages
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When it come to children with special needs there are different categories that the children can fall in. With in each of these categories there are different teaching methods that have to be use and different types of training that the teacher will need. Children with special needs are tested and then put into the appropriate group as to the disability that they have. There are several different types of special needs such as autism‚ behavior disorders‚ Cerebral Palsy‚ Down Syndrome‚ Alcohol
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talking about child abuse we refer to any forms of harm or breach to a child through: neglect‚ physical‚ emotional and sexual activities. Child Line (N‚ D) summaries neglect as a process where someone is not being cared for properly. Neglect is when you don’t have access to the most basic level of needs introduced by Abraham Maslow. In 1943 Abraham Maslow published a paper on ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’ (Poston; 2009) where he produced the Hierarchy of Needs theory. (Figure 1) This theory states that
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Education and Support for Multilingual Children “Practitioners need the empathy‚ understanding and skills to help children achieve a positive sense of themselves and of others. Our role: to protect and value all children in the setting‚ foster empathy and provide accurate information about difference to enable children to think critically about and challenge bias.” Migration in the world means that children grow up in multilingual communities and families. Bilingualism is common for a
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