Child Development

 

Theories in Child and Reader Development

Intellectual Development (Cognitive Psychology)

  • Piaget (the child as meaning-maker)
    • Sensory Motor (0-2)
    • Preoperational (2-7)
    • Concrete Operational (7-11)
    • Formal Operations (11-up)
  • Vygotsky (Social-Linguistic)
    • Zone of Proximal Development
    • Scaffolding
    • Overlapping curriculum
    • Spiraling curriculum
  • Gardner (Multiple Intelligences)
    • linguistic
    • musical
    • spatial
    • natural
    • logical-mathematics
    • bodily (kinesthetic)
    • awareness of self
    • awareness of others

Language Development

  • Halliday
    • Children construct their own system for making themselves understood

Moral Development

  • Lawrence Kohlberg
  • Robert Coles

Personality Development

  • Abraham Mazlow

    • Physiological Needs
      1. Most basic level to survive
      2. Food, water, clothing, shelter, sleep
      3. Usually satisfied through adequate wage
      Safety Needs
      1. Required for physical & emotion security
      2. Satisfied through job security, insurance, pensions, & safe working conditions.
      Social Needs
      1. Requirement for love & sense of belonging
      2. Work environment, informal organizations, friends & family satisfy soc. needs
      Esteem Needs
      1. Require respect, recognition, sense of accomplishment & self-worth.
      2. Accomplishments, promotions, honors, and awards satisfy this need.
      Self-Realization needs
      1. Need to grow, develop & be what we're capable of.

      2.
      Most difficult to satisfy
      3. Varies w/ individual; examples: learning new skills, new career, be the best at something

 

  • Erik Erikson Stages of Development
    • trust
    • autonomy
    • initiative
    • accomplishment and industry
    • identity
    • intimacy, productivity, integrity
Reader Response

Louise Rosenblatt

Reading is an active (not passive) process, an interaction between the written word and the reader.

  • Efferent Stance
  • Aesthetic Stance

Primary

  • Motor oriented response
  • Parts rather than whole
  • Embedded language

Elementary

  • Summarize
  • Categorize

Middle School

  • Strong preferences
  • Analytical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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