HUMAN

DEVELOPMENT:
Meaning, Concepts and
Approaches
 2 APPROACHES TO HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
TRADITIONAL LIFE – SPAN
APPROACH APPROACH
extensive change from developmental changes
birth to adolescence, takes place even in
little or no change in adulthood as it does during
adulthood and decline childhood
in late old age
CHARACTERISTICS
OF
HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
(LIFE – SPAN
PERSPECTIVE)
1. Development is lifelong.
2. Development is plastic.
3. Development is
multidimensional.
4. Development is contextual.
5. Development involves growth,
maintenance and regulation.
 DEVELOPMENT IS
MULTIDIMENSIONAL
BIOLOGICAL COGNITIVE SOCIOEMOTIONAL
changes in the individual’s changes in the changes in individual’s
physical nature. individual’s relationships with
1. Development is other people, changes
thoughts,
relatively orderly. in emotions and
intelligence and changes in personality.
a. Proximodistal pattern language.
b. Cephalo-caudal
pattern
2. Development takes
place gradually.
 All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely
players;
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man is his time plays many
parts…
- William Shakespeare -