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Human Development

Human development is a lifelong process that begins at conception and continues throughout the lifespan. It involves growth, maintenance, and regulation across biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional dimensions. A life-span perspective views development as multidimensional and plastic, occurring at varying rates for each individual. Early experiences profoundly shape development, and optimal periods exist for different types of learning and growth.

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Human Development

Human development is a lifelong process that begins at conception and continues throughout the lifespan. It involves growth, maintenance, and regulation across biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional dimensions. A life-span perspective views development as multidimensional and plastic, occurring at varying rates for each individual. Early experiences profoundly shape development, and optimal periods exist for different types of learning and growth.

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Human Development: Nature

Concepts and Approaches


• Every living creature is called to become what
it is meant to be. The caterpillar is meant to
become a butterfly; a seed into a full grown
herb, bush, or tree; a baby into a mature
person
Human Development: Meaning,
Concepts and Approaches
-Human Development is the pattern of
movement or change that begins at conception
and continues through the life span.
-It includes growth and decline.
Some Major Principles of Human
Development
1. Development is relatively orderly.
-proximodistal pattern
-cephalo-caudal pattern

2. While the pattern of development is likely to


be similar, the outcomes of developmental
processes and the rate of development are likely
to vary among individuals.
• 3. Development takes place gradually.

• 4. Development as a process is complex


because it is the product of biological,
cognitive and socio-emtional processes
(Santrock, 2002)
Two Approaches to Human
Development
• A. Traditional

• B. Life-Span Development
Characteristics of Life-Span Perspective
• 1. Development is lifelong. It does not end in
adulthood. No developmental stage dominates
development.

• 2. Developmental is multi-dimensional.
Development consists of biological, cognitive, and
socio-emotional dimensions.

• 3. Development is plastic. Development is


possible throughout the life span.
5. Development involves growth, maintenance
and regulation
Principles of Child Development and Learning
that Inform Practice
-Below are the principles of child development
and learning which are the bases of
Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP).
They affirm the principles of human
development and characteristics of life-span
development approach.
• 1. All domains of development and learning physical,
social, emotional, and cognitive are important and
they are closely interrelated
• 2. Many aspects of children's learning and
development follow well documented sequences, with
later abilities, skills, and knowledge building on those
already acquired

• 3. Development and learning proceed at varying rates


from child to child, as well as at uneven rates across
different areas of a child's individual functioning.
• 4. Development and learning result from a dynamic
and continuous interaction of biological maturation
and experience.
• 5. Early experiences have profound effects, both
cumulative and delayed, on a child's development and
learning; and optimal periods exist for certain types of
development and learning occur.

• 6. Development proceeds toward greater complexity,


self-regulation, and symbolic or representational
capacities.
• 7. Children develop best when they have secure,
consistent relationships with responsive adults and
opportunities for positive relationships with peers
• 8. Development and learning occur in and are
influenced by multiple social and cultural contexts.

• 9. Always mentally active in seeking to understand the


world 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.
• 10. Play is an important vehicle for developing self-
regulation as well as promoting language, cognition,
and social competence.
• 11. Development and learning advance when children
are challenged to achieve at a level just beyond their
current mastery, and also when they have many
opportunities to practice newly acquired skills.

• 12. 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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