This document discusses human development from a life-span perspective and its implications for child care, education, and parenting. It provides 5 characteristics of human development: 1) Development is lifelong 2) Development is plastic 3) Development is multidirectional 4) Development is contextual 5) Each characteristic implies that development occurs across one's entire lifespan and is influenced by biological and environmental factors. The document also discusses what growth and development mean for a person and whether traditional approaches to development align with life-span perspectives.
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This document discusses human development from a life-span perspective and its implications for child care, education, and parenting. It provides 5 characteristics of human development: 1) Development is lifelong 2) Development is plastic 3) Development is multidirectional 4) Development is contextual 5) Each characteristic implies that development occurs across one's entire lifespan and is influenced by biological and environmental factors. The document also discusses what growth and development mean for a person and whether traditional approaches to development align with life-span perspectives.
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MODULE 1: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: MEANING,
CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
Activity
1. Here are some pictures of seven-year-old Naschielle and three-year-
old Kenn. Each one is a bundle of possibilities. Describe what they were before birth (their point of origin) and who they will possibly be after birth unto adulthood. What will they possibly become? Expound on your answers.
The pictures of Naschielle and Kenn shows a clump of possibilities
that may happen in the future. Though they may differ in terms of socioeconomic status in life, each of them will develop into different aspects as to what career path they may take or situations that they will encounter as they progress and reach the adulthood.
ANALYSIS
1. State five characteristics of human development from a life-span
perspective and their implications to child care, education and parenting.
Characteristic of a human Educational Implication to
development from a life-span Child Care, Education and perspective Parenting 1. Development is lifelong. This characteristic of life-span perspective implies that development occurs even until our last breath. In child-care, an individual in its childhood is mostly a curious one, this curiosity is bought until its education starts. As children grow, their education leads them to development, even until they are in parenthood. Development never stops it continues as long as a person lives. 2. Development is plastic This characteristic of life-span perspective implies that a change occurs in development, in child- care, children undergo drastic changes as well as their needs, and those needs must be provided for the child’s welfare. In education, learning means being subjected to change. However small the change is, development takes place, so regardless of age, changes through development occurs. In parenting, improvement due to any deliberate effort to help parents be more effective in caring for children is development. As a child grows, ones parenting style should develop and match with the child’s needs. 3. Development is This characteristic of life-span multidirectional perspective implies that in adolescence, puberty consists of physiological and physical changes with changes in hormone levels, the development of primary and secondary sex characteristics, alterations in height and weight, and several other bodily changes. But these are not the only types of changes taking place; there are also cognitive changes, including the development of advanced cognitive faculties such as the ability to think abstractly. There are also emotional and social changes involving regulating emotions, interacting with peers, and possibly dating. 4. Development is This characteristic of life-span multidirectional perspective implies that self- regulation is one domain of puberty which undergoes profound multidirectional changes during the adolescent period. During childhood, individuals have difficulty effectively regulating their actions and impulsive behaviors. Scholars have noted that this lack of effective regulation often results in children engaging in behaviors without fully considering the consequences of their actions.
5. Development is contextual This characteristic of life-span
perspective implies that contextualism refers to the idea that three systems of biological and environmental influences work together to influence development. Development occurs in context and varies from person to person, depending on factors such as a person’s biology, family, school, church, profession, nationality, and ethnicity. The three types of influences that operate throughout the life course: normative age-graded influences, normative history-graded influences, and nonnormative influences, these three influences operate throughout the life course, their effects accumulate with time, and, as a dynamic package, they are responsible for how lives develop. 2. “Growth is an evidence of life.” Or “development is an evidence of life. What this mean? What does this imply to a person’s development?
Growth is evidence of existence. Growing up is always hard to do.
That we grow is a law of nature. Newman once said that “growth is the only evidence of life”. When you make active decision, you begin your own journey of personal growth and development, you’ve taken the first step towards a better and brighter future. Growth and development are a transformational process, in which improvements are made in your physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, and/or financial state. This process is often triggered by an important life event that inspires you to improve and empower yourself by discovering where your full potential lies. The result is a more satisfying and meaningful life, which is evident in your relationships, place of work, self-image and self- confidence, as well as your worldview. People want to grow and develop themselves because they are unsatisfied with their life and the direction it is heading. To change its course and create a satisfying life, undergoing the personal growth and development process is essential. Once this process is underway the results are endless. You will find meaning and purpose in yourself that was absent before. Life goals will become possible. You will use your full potential to benefit yourself and others. New skills and talents will be discovered. Old relationships will be strengthened and new ones will be easily formed. All of which will give you a boost in your self-image and self-confidence.
3. If approach to human development is traditional, are the
characteristics of human development from a life-span perspective acceptable? Explain your answer.
Yes, Traditional approaches to human development have emphasized
change from birth to adolescence, stability in adulthood, and decline in old age. The changes in body, personality, and abilities may be great during these later decades. Strong developmental tasks are imposed by marriage and parenthood, by the waxing and waning of physical prowess and of some intellectual capacities, by the children’s exit from the nest, by the achievement of an occupational plateau, and by retirement and the prospect of death. Reflection
From this module, it had come to my realization that a human
development is a pattern of movement that begins at conception and continues through the life span of a well human being. Also, it includes growth and decline. The human development can be positive or negative. Growth deals with quantitative changes while development deals with qualitative changes. Development is relatively orderly. Development has proximodistal pattern that deals with the development from inward to upward. Another pattern is the cephalocaudal pattern which the development is from head to toe and from top to bottom. Development also takes place gradually. The pattern of development is more likely be similar, the outcome of development process and the rate of development are varying among individuals. Development as a process is complex because it is the product of biological, cognitive and socio-emotional process. The biological process is a physical change. The cognitive process is about knowledge, thoughts, language. The socio-emotional is a process that focuses on dealing with people. The human development has five (5) different approaches. It includes life-long, multi-dimensional, plastic, contextual and involves growth, maintenance and regulation. The life-span of a human development occurs al throughout the life-span of an individual. The development never stops until death. The traditional occurs human development that shows extensive change from birth to adolescence, little or no change in adulthood and decline in the late old age. The life-long development does not end by adulthood and no development stage dominates the development. The multi-dimensional consists of biological, cognitive and socio-emotional dimensions. The plastic development is possible throughout the life-span. The contextual development are individuals that can adopt changing beings in a changing world. Development and learning result from a dynamic and continuous interaction of biological maturation and experience. I have developed and broaden my knowledge about the meaning, concepts and approaches of a human development. This module asserts more knowledge on the development of a human.