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 you come to know about specific physical needs of children, you should consequently plan your …
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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 be physically unhealthy, socially inefficient and cognitively deteriorated. (iii) A child with less social interaction, …
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 along the way. When children reach elementary school (6-12 years of age), they soon learn …
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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 teacher informed the class that any student caught cheating would automatically fail the test. Even …
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 medicine for his mother. His brother starts crying because of hunger. Rajat goes to a …
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 before a child masters logical mental operations; (c) the concrete operational stage of middle childhood- …
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 an ongoing process of arranging information and experience into mental systems or categories. Piaget termed …
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, moral and emotional development. But the question arises, what is this cognitive development? Cognitive development …
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 Emotional Development At the childhood stage, children experience feelings of love, hatred and fear …
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 is increase in height. A gradual improvement in speed, steadiness of movement and accuracy also …
