It is essential for practitioners to be aware of children’s care and learning needs within a setting‚ there are numerous reasons for this. Primarily‚ it is to encourage ‘development’. A few children may develop and learn quicker than others but as practitioners it is somewhat our responsibility to make sure that all children’s needs are cared for despite what stage of development/growth they are at. This can be done‚ by carrying out observations; these will support us to distinguish the ‘exact’ learning
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closely to see if the child has developed significant behaviors marking the milestone of a four-year old child. Paying close attention whether the behaviors the child exhibits are connected to any theories learned in class such as Pavlov‚ Bowlby‚ Erikson‚ Piaget‚ Freud‚ etc. Description of Physical and Social Setting: The observation is taking place in a classroom where there are tables set up with different hands on activities are laid out for children to play with and pass time. The result of play
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child participates (either directly or indirectly) have a unique • Influence on that child’s development. • Different contexts‚ from the closest influences to the most distant influences‚ interact to uniquely affect a child’s development. John Bowlby • Attachment is a close and enduring bond between a child and a caregiver. • Based on sensitive and responsive care‚ a child knows that his or her needs will be met and uses the caregiver as a safe base from which to explore the environment. • In
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needs to give them the best possible start in life. Care needs have been researched by theorists like John Bowlby and Maslow; they have both shown that to achieve and develop in life it is important to have confidence and positive self-esteem. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explains human behaviour and shows the important in terms of basic requirements. Other theorists like Brunner‚ Piaget and Vygotsky look at the way children learn. Appropriate provision is important for children as this covers
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nature as it is innate for an individual to speak‚ this is important as it gives the basic boundaries to communicate. Nurture in this case refers to what type of language has been learnt with the influences and environment they live in. In childhood Piaget explains how children start to go through the pre operational stage where they start thinking logically and start to use the language that they have been learnt independently. Nature and nurture in this debate is equally as important as the child
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" Bobo doll experiment Cognitive Piaget Information Processing Organismic Mechanistic/ organismic/ Contextual Child develops cognitive skills through active interaction with the environment. Development is a process of learning to represent‚ process‚ store‚ and retrieve information. Stages‚ assimilation‚ accommodation‚ equilibration Memory‚ perception‚ thinking‚ symbolic representation‚ computer models Biological Ecological Approaches Bowlby Vygotsky Bronfenbrenner Organismic
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teaches infants that they can depend on their parent. John Bowlby studied secure attachments between a child and their parent. He believes that emotional balance as an adult had a direct correlation to the early stages of child development and the maternal relationship. He believed that the relationship should stem from a monotrophy maternal figure or substitutes loving‚ caring and consistent relations with the child (shriner & shriner‚ 2014) Bowlby states that children who do not form a secure relationship
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Activity One I am attached to my mum. If she went away i would feel very sad and lost without her. Activity Two Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a biologist who originally studied molluscs (publishing twenty scientific papers on them by the time he was 21) but moved into the study of the development of children’s understanding‚ through observing them and talking and listening to them while they worked on exercises he set. His view of how children’s minds work and develop has been enormously influential
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at 1 year of age is correct. Explain why it would be fruitless to tell a child not to worry‚ your mother just went downstairs to the laundry room‚ she’ll be back in a minute. Relate this circumstance using the attachment theory. According to Bowlby‚ when threatened‚ humans‚ like other primate groups‚ probably cooperated to drive off the predators and protect the sick and young. To gain this protection‚ children needed to stay close to the adults. If a child lost contact‚ he or she could be
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As a child‚ I frequently had nightmares resulting in me crawling into my parents’ bed. My mother’s comfort gave me a sense of protection against the ‘monsters’ in my sleep. One morning when I was 4‚ my parents had gone to the gym and left my older brother in charge. I woke up early that morning after another nightmare but when I went to my parents’ room I couldn’t find them. I walked into my brother’s room crying‚ waking him up and he then asked me what was wrong? I told him that I had a nightmare
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