Essays on Trawick

Introduction

In practice, Early Childhood Education is considered as one of the best environments for preschool age children based on a multitude of learning opportunities that it provides (Clark & Moss, 2005). This kind of early childhood education helps the children to foster in their language development, physical development and social ability in every dimension (Fasold, 1990). It is important that childhood teachers examine the trends in the today's society that influence the way the children play. Children's play behaviours will always be different depending on various contextual facts. For example, changes in the way technology get driven including children playing ...

NAEYC standards and implications for early learning and teaching practices

Psycho analytical theories explain a Childs development using psychological states that are characterized by conflicts and tensions. Developed by Sigmund Freud and Eric Erickson, the psycho analytical theory views early childhood development as psycho sexual in that sexuality and aggression were the major motivation for early childhood development. Eric Ericson however believed that the social context and environment in which a child is brought up has a lot of impact on the development of the child.

Current research in this field however tend to differ with the assertions of Sigmund. Modern psycho analytics explain childhood development in terms of cognitive, attachment theory ...