This document discusses human development from conception through the lifespan. It covers the main patterns and principles of development including physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes. Development is described as a lifelong, multidimensional, plastic, and contextual process involving growth, maintenance, and regulation. Key experts and their views on development are also summarized such as Paul Baltes' five principles of lifespan development. Finally, the principles of child development and learning that form the basis for developmentally appropriate early childhood practices are outlined.
This document discusses human development from conception through the lifespan. It covers the main patterns and principles of development including physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes. Development is described as a lifelong, multidimensional, plastic, and contextual process involving growth, maintenance, and regulation. Key experts and their views on development are also summarized such as Paul Baltes' five principles of lifespan development. Finally, the principles of child development and learning that form the basis for developmentally appropriate early childhood practices are outlined.
This document discusses human development from conception through the lifespan. It covers the main patterns and principles of development including physical, cognitive, social, and emotional changes. Development is described as a lifelong, multidimensional, plastic, and contextual process involving growth, maintenance, and regulation. Key experts and their views on development are also summarized such as Paul Baltes' five principles of lifespan development. Finally, the principles of child development and learning that form the basis for developmentally appropriate early childhood practices are outlined.
LPT Every living creature is called to become what it is meant to be. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT The pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through life span.
Development includes growth and decline. This
means that development can be positive or negative (Santrock, 2002). A. Proximodistal Pattern The muscular control of the trunk and the arms comes earlier as compared to the hands and fingers. B. Cephalo-caudal Pattern During infancy, the greatest growth always occurs at the top – the head – with physical growth in size, weight and future differentiation gradually working its way down from top to bottom. involves changes in the individual’s physical nature. involves changes in the individual’s thought, intelligence, and language. includes changes in the individual’s relationships with other people, changes in emotions and changes in personality. Extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood and decline in late old age. PAUL BALTES (SANTROCK, 2002), AN EXPERT IN LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT 1)Development is lifelong. 2)Development is multidimensional. 3)Development is Plastic. 4)Development is contextual. 5)Development involves growth, maintenance and regulation. Below are the principles of child development and learning which are the bases of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) in early childhood program for children from birth through age 8, which are stated in the position paper of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (2009)
1.All the domains of development and learning-
physical social and emotional, and cognitive are important and they are closely interrelated. 2. Many aspects of children’s learning and development follow well documented sequences , with later abilities, skills and knowledge building on those already acquired.
3. Development and learning proceed at
varying rates from child to child, as well as at uneven rates across different areas of child’s individual functioning. 4. Development and learning result from a dynamic and continuous interaction of biological maturation and experience.
5. Early experiences have profound
effects, both cumulative and delayed, on a child’s development and learning; and optimal periods exist for certain types of development and learning to occur. 6. Development proceeds toward greater complexity, self-regulation, and symbolic or representational capacities.
7. Children develop best when they have
secure, consistent, relationships with responsive adults and opportunities for positive relationships with peers.
8. Development and learning occur in and are
influenced by multiple social and cultural contexts. 10. Play is an important vehicle for developing self regulation as well as for promoting language, cognition, and social competence. 11. Development and learning advance when children are challenged to achieve at a level just beyond their current mastery, and also when they have many opportunities to practice newly acquired skills.
12.Children’s experiences shape their
motivation and approaches to learning, such as persistence , initiative and flexibility. END OF DISCUSSION