Module 1 Human Development Meaning Concepts and Approaches
Module 1 Human Development Meaning Concepts and Approaches
Module 1 Human Development Meaning Concepts and Approaches
TRADITIONAL LIFE-SPAN
APPROACHES TO
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
1.Development is lifelong.
2.Development is multidimensional.
3.Development is plastic.
LIFE-SPAN
4.Development is contextual.
5.Development involves growth,
maintenance and regulation.
Source: Paul Baltes, as cited in Santrock (2002)
PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
Bases of developmentally appropriate
practice (DAP) in early childhood
program for children and birth through
age 8, which were stated in the position
paper of the National Association for the
Education of Young Children (2009).
PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
All the domains of development and learning-physical,
social and emotional, and cognitive are important and
they are closely interrelated. Children’s development
and learning in one domain influence and are
influenced by what takes place in other domains.
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
Always mentally active in seeking to understand the
world and around them, children learn in a variety of
ways; a wide range of teaching strategies and
interactions are effective in supporting all these
kinds of learning.
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
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PRINCIPLES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
AND LEARNING THAT INFORM PRACTICE
Children’s experiences shape their motivation and
approaches to learning, such as persistence,
initiative, and flexibility; in turn, these dispositions
and behaviors affect their learning and
development.
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IMPLICATIONS
APPLICATION
Instructions:
1.Work by pair or trio and brainstorm about the
following questions.
2.Provide your output on one whole sheet of yellow
paper.
3.To be submitted next meeting.
APPLICATION
Questions 1-3:
1. “Growth is an evidence of life.” What does this mean?
2. Define development in your own words. Translate the
meaning of development in Filipino and in your local
dialect.
3. State the 5 major principles of human development from
a life-span perspective. Give at least one application in
the teaching-learning process. What have these principles
to do with you as you teach learners?
APPLICATION
Question 4:
4. Research further on the cephalocaudal and
proximodistal patterns of development.
a. Illustrate both patterns by a drawing or diagram.
b. How do you apply your knowledge of cephalocaudal and
proximodistal patterns of development in your teaching?
APPLICATION
Question 5:
5. Interpret the following quotations in relation to
human development:
a. “Every man is in certain respects like all other men, like
some other men, and no other man.” (Murray, H. A. & C.
Kluckhohn)
b. “Man is an unfinished project. He is always in the process
of becoming.”
APPLICATION
Questions 6-7:
6. In the light of researches on human development,
which of the two approaches is closer to the truth
traditional or lifespan? Why?
7. If your approach to human development is
traditional, are the characteristics of human
development from a life-span perspective acceptable?
Explain your answer.
Reference:
Corpuz, B. B., Lucas, M. R. D. , Borado, H. G. L., & Lucido, P. I. (2015). Child and
Adolescent Development: Looking at Learners at Different Life Stages. Lorimar
Publishing.