Child development theories

Childhood theory seeks to answer two basic questions. What are the underlying ___ that result in change? What strategies do children use to achieve new ___ and ___?

An approach to study of human development and consists of the scientific study of accommodation throughout the life course and changing properties of the immediate settings in which the developing person lives.

• Piaget

• Ecological Systems

• Vygotsky

• Brofenbrenner's ecological theory

Ecological systems theory is about:

_ and_ in layers of enviromental systems that have an impact on child _.

The ecological systems theory holds that we encounter different _ and that may influence our development

Which system involves the cultural contexts which involve the socioeconomic status of the person.

Which system has a setting in which there is a context in which the person does not have any active role, and the context in which the child is actively participating.

Which system has changes which occur within a child's life, both culturally and personally.

Which system involves the relationships between microsystems in one's life.

By taking an ecological perspective on teaching:

We build _ between home and school.

• _ can't be done by only parents or only teachers.

• Teachers help children to _ , parents _ learning at home, schools must get involved with_ projects.

Assumption that learning is an active process of construction rather than a passive assimilation of information or rote memorisation.

• equilibration

• accommodation

• constructivism

We are motivated to learn when we are in

Where the child will reorganise her thoughts

assimilation+accommodation=

Child can't tell difference between themselves and the enviroment