What Did I Learn from Child Development

What Did I Learn from Child Development

  • Submitted By: yuemmm
  • Date Submitted: 08/18/2010 1:59 PM
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This is my very first time to take the Child Development class. At first I feel like there are too many theories and seem to I have a lot of things to read and remember and this is might not an easy class. Now I already finish my Chapter 6 and will finish my Child Development study for this time. I feel like I already got some ideas about this class and got more and more puzzles to build it up by myself. There are two theorists I have to mention first about this class, I think they play an important role on the Child Development field. One is Piaget and another is Vygotsky. Piaget posited that children learn through actively constructing knowledges through hands-on experience(Piaget's cognitive-development theory).He developed stages of development and suggested that the adult's role in helping the child learn was to provide appropriate materials for the child to interact and construct . Another theorist is Vygotsky, He posited that children learn through hands-on experience, as Piaget suggested ,However, unlike Piaget, he claimed that timely and sensitive intervention by adult when a child is on the edge of learning a new task(called the zone of Proximal Development) could help children learn new tasks. This technique is called“Scaffolding”,because it builds upon knowledge children already have with new knowledge that adults can help the child learn. An example of this might be when a parent”helps” an infant clap or roll his hands to the pat-a-cake rhyme, until he can clap and roll his hand himself. Vygotsky was strongly focused on the role of culture in determining the child's pattern of development. He argued that “Every function in the child's cultural development appears twice:first, on the social level, and later, on the individual level,first between people and then inside the child. Many theorists posit stage theories, but Vygotsky did not support stages at all, instead that development was a continuous process. Besides these two theorists. I learned...

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