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Child Development. Early Childhood Educational Program. The Most Dynamic Growth in Brain Size and its Internal Architecture Takes Place in the Early Age.
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Child Development Early Childhood Educational Program
The Most Dynamic Growth in Brain Size and its Internal Architecture Takes Place in the Early Age A child’s peak learning years occur during certain sensitive period or “under window of opportunity” when the synapses linking brain neurons are forming at the maximum rate
Activity Instructions • Cut the cake into five pieces of identical size and shape • You must only use four cuts, how would the piece look?
Themes of Development • The origins of human behavior • Pattern of Developmental change over time • Individual and contextual forces that define direct Child Development Biological cognitive Linguistic emotional social
Pattern of Change • Continuous vs. Discontinues pictures
Structural-Organismic PerspectivePsychological Development social Emotional & Personalities Thinking
TEMUAN … knowledge is a process rather than a state. It is an event or a relationship between the knower and the known. … people construct knowledge. They have an active part in the process of knowing and even contribute to the form that knowledge takes place. Cognitive humans actively select and interpret information in the environment. They do not passively soak up information to build a storehouse of knowledge. Children’s knowledge of the world changes as their cognitive system develops. As the knower changes, so does the known.
Learning Perspective • Behaviorism • Cognitive Social Learning Theory • Information-Processes Approaches Learning Perspective
Cognitive Social Learning Theory Modeled Behavior Albert Bandura ≠ classical & operant conditioning + observing and imitating other Matching Behavior
Dynamic System Perspectives • 1. Dynamic system Theory: • A theory that proposes that individual develop and function within systems and that studies the relationship among individuals and systems and the properties by which these relationships operate Interacting component and system
Contextual Theoretical1. Sociocultural theory : Vygotsky2. Ecological theory “Child is best understood in relation to social and cultural experience”
Ethological and Evolutionary Approaches1. Ethological2. Evolutionary