Child Development Article Reviews Samples For Students

Child development is a term that refers to the psychological, emotional and biological changes that usually take place in human beings between the ages of birth and at the end of adolescence. Child development is a continuous process which has predictable sequence but at the same time having a unique perspective in every child. The process of child development does not take place at the same rate on all children. Each step in the development of the children is marked by different traits and must all always be preceded by the previous development. The process of child development is ...

Integrated Literature Review

Directorship on Child Care
Introduction
Childhood is an important stage of human development in which proper guidance are necessary in order to ensure that a child’s welfare is being addressed. In many ways, the work of a program director encompasses a difficult role in terms of regulations and program strategies that aims to have a positive influence towards child development. In this discussion, the role of a director in child development will be explored by examining literatures that articulates the topic on teacher’s needs, ethics, leadership, roles and responsibilities, and best practices. Directors are institutional leaders that ...

There are environmental factors which could affect the development of the child. One of these factors is the quality of life in the neighborhood. It could affect the function of the parents and could influence the children’s development. It could be considered as an environmental stressor. Studies revealed that social support could improve parenting styles. These social supports could come from the community especially from the neighborhood. However, social support and parenting in the impoverished neighborhood are less likely to improve parenting styles and child development.
As an environmental stressor, lifestyle of neighborhood affects social support and parenting ...

Abstract

Early childhood education is a concept used to refer to the act of teaching a child outside his or her home with the help of a teacher or a tutor. Early childhood education takes the form of schooling the child in a formal setting away from home. Early childhood in most nations is undertaken at the age of below five years. Assessment on the other hand refers to the process of planning on how to equip a person with knowledge, attitudes and skills (Highscope, 2009). Early childhood education system requires assessment to determine the suitability of the various topics being taught and how they are ...

Summary: Piaget’s, Vygotsky’s, Erikson’s Theories of Social Development

Introduction
McLeod (2007) observes that a number of learning theories have been advanced to describe the nature social development, key among them being postulated by Erikson, Piaget and Vygotsky. According to him, the foundations laid by these theoretical approaches to human development have been used in various sectors for purposes of conceptualizing and formulating general as well as particular universal patterns that help to improve our understanding of certain phenomena. Such occurrences are characterized by learning, intelligence development, and social interactions. As a result, a number of suggestions have been proposed based on their findings with the aim of defining the ...

Introduction

Child development involves continuous changes psychologically, biologically and emotionally from the time of infancy up to the end of adolescence. Growth and development are always used interchangeably, but it is important to note the difference in that growth involves the physical changes in child’s body shape, size, height, weight, arms, and legs length whereas development encompasses a continuous progression in complex knowledge. A child’s growth and development are always divided into four periods; infancy, preschool years, middle childhood years and adolescence.
The study in this article is about the need to belong theory which gives the relationship ...

Every child goes through developmental stages. According to Kyla Boyse, RN (2013) in her article “Developmental Milestones, University of Michigan Health Systems, “Child development refers to how a child becomes able to do more complex things as they get older.” This process of development involves cognitive development, social and emotional development, speech and language development and learning and mastering fine motor skills. Between the ages of 6 to 12 a child is expected to have developed strong physical, emotional and mental abilities. Although all children are expected to go through the same developmental stages not all of them develop the same way ...

Teaching is one of the most challenging professions in the world. This is so because as a teacher, one gets to interact with a variety of personalities in one setting and therefore has got to devise mechanisms of identifying these personalities and addressing each individual personality according to their own needs and wants. A class of thirty students will comprise of thirty different personalities and it is the role of the teacher to address these student’s personalities without excluding any. Identifying the student’s strengths and weaknesses therefore is the most important thing to do. In order to meet the ...

Research Methods in Human Development:

“Child Care and the Development of Behavior Problems among Economically Disadvantaged Children in Middle Childhood”
Child Care and the Development of Behavior Problems among Economically Disadvantaged Children in Middle Childhood: A Review
The peer-reviewed article is the work of Votruba-Drzal et al. (2010). The focus of the study is to determine whether the level of childcare quality is interrelated to the development of behavioral problems among economically disadvantaged children in middle childhood (Votruba-Drzal et al., 2010). According to the thesis statement in the article, when a child transitions into formal schooling, indications of lower behavioral problem and better ...

Article Review: Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs

Article Review: Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs

Summary

The position statement issued by NAEYC in 2009 maintains that a developmentally appropriate practice is an effective intervention in the field of education. Developmentally appropriate practice is a best practices framework for early childhood education. In discussing this framework, the the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) highlighted the (a) issues in the early childhood education environment, (b) new knowledge that addresses the identified issues, (c) primary considerations in applying the framework, (d) child development and learning principles that guide program implementation, (e ) guidelines in implementing the framework, and (f) implications ...

Article Review

Reference
Schulz, L.E., & Bonawitz, E.B. (2007). Serious Fun: Preschoolers Engage in More Exploratory Play When Evidence Is Confounded. Developmental Psychology, 43(4), 1045–1050.
Objectives
The main study hypothesis is that exploration play by children is influenced by the quality of evidence they have. In particular, it is explored how preschoolers distinguish between unconfounded and confounded evidence. The authors also predict that children receiving confounded evidence tend to play with familiar toys, while those who see unconfounded evidence show novelty preference, playing with toy that is unfamiliar to them.
Method
The main question that ...