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STUDY GUIDE FOR MODULE NO. 4

ISSUES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

MODULE OVERVIEW

Each of us has his/her own informal way of looking at our own and other people’s development. These
paradigms of human development while obviously lacking in scholastic vigor, provide us with a conceptual
framework for understanding ourselves and others. Scholars have come up with their own models of human
development. Back up by solid research, they stand on issues on human development.

MODULE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In this module, challenge yourself to:

 Take a research-based position on the three (3) issues on development.

LEARNING CONTENTS ISSUES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

TOPICS AND ISSUES:

1. Nature versus Nurture – Which has a more significant influence on human development? Nature or
nurture? Nature refers to an individual’s biological inheritance. Nurture refers to environmental
experiences.
2. Continuity versus Discontinuity – Does development involve gradual, cumulative change (continuity)
or distinct changes (discontinuity). To make it more concrete, here is a question: Is our development
like that of a seedling gradually growing into an acacia tree? Or is it more like that of a caterpillar
becoming a butterfly?
3. Stability versus Change – Is development best described as involving stability or as involving change?
Are we what our first experiences have made of us or do we develop into someone different from who
we were at an earlier point in development?

To know more about this lesson, read articles or watch video on:
https://www.slideshare.net/KimberlynMendoza/educ-201-issues-on-human-development
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/key-issues-in-human-development/

LEARNING ACTIVITY 1

1. Read a research related to issues on human development. Fill out the matrix below. Strongly
suggested topic is fetal origins.

Problem Research Methodology

Source: (bibliographical entry

format)
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Findings Conclusions

How are the findings of this research useful to teachers?

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2. Watch “The battle between nature and nurture”, by Irene Gallego Romero on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXIW_m0lo0U. what conclusions can you derive from the
battle between nature and nurture?

Scoring rubric:
Content and Organization ……………………………………… 50%
Accuracy and Conventions (grammar, spelling,
usage and sentence formation) ……………………………….. 30%
Presentation of the output and style …………..………………. 15%
Timeliness………………………………………………….……… 5%
Total 100%

LEARNING ACTIVIT

SUMMARY

Both genes and environment are necessary for a person even to exist. Without genes, there is no person;
without environment, there is no person (Scarr and Weinberg, 1980, quoted by Santrock, 2002). Heredity and
environment operate together – or cooperate and interact – to produce a person’s intelligence, temperament,
height, weight… ability to read and so on.

If heredity and environment interact, which one has a greater influence or contribution, heredity or
environment? The relative contributions of heredity and environment are not additive. So we can’t say 50% is
a contribution of heredity and 50% of environment. Neither is it correct to say that full genetic expression
happens once, around conception or birth, after which we take our genetic legacy into the world to see how
far it gets us. Genes produce proteins throughout the life span, in many different environments. Or they don’t
produce these proteins, depending on how harsh or nourishing those environments are. (Santrock, 2002).

REFERENCES

Brenda B. Corpuz, Ph.D, et. al. (2018). The Child and Adolescent Learners and Learning Principles. Lorimar
Publishing Inc.

https://www.slideshare.net/KimberlynMendoza/educ-201-issues-on-human-development

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/adolescent/chapter/key-issues-in-human-development/

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