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Child development - Coggle Diagram
Child development
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Examples
Social (enjoy playing alongside other children, but won’t interact a great deal with them, show awareness of others’ feelings and might try to give basic help, look to adults for comfort)
Spiritual (concerns the broad search for transcendental meaning that may be as simple as a young child’s inquiries into how the world came into being)
Emotional (extend trusting relationships to other adults and to children, show a strong sense of self as an individual, recognize feelings, label their own feelings)
Intellectual (the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the concrete operational stage, the formal operational stage)
Physical (weight, height, muscles, systems, organs)
Main concepts
refers to the biological characteristics, psychological aspects, emotional changes that occurs in human beings between birth and at the end of adolescence then through adulthood as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy
Development is the outcome transaction between the child and her environment (Douglas Davies, 2011)
Child's genetically influenced characteristics, unfolds according to maturational timetables, and move forward to a series of tasks and challenges of increasing complexity that child must master in order to extend her ability to function within herself and within her environment.
Development is qualitative, it cannot be measured but it is seen through the emergence of new characteristics (H. Hamzah, J.N. Samuel, R. Kastawi, 2008)
The differences between growth and development (H. Hamzah, J.N. Samuel, R. Kastawi, 2008)
Physical
Growth- Change in height, increase in weight, teething
Development- Reading skill, writing, counting, creative and critical thinking
Emotions
Growth- Feeling of happiness, love, anger and jealousy
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Social
Growth- Having relationship with parents, family, friends and people around them
Development- Having skills in social relationship and showing a good behavior in accordance to the norm of society