knowledge and understanding of different theories of development
 

produce a report to demonstrate you knowledge and understanding of different theories of development. This report should identify how these theories have influenced current practice and include the following:

• cognitive
• psychoanalytical
• humanist
• social learning
• operant conditioning
• behaviourist
• social pedagogy

any help please? :dizzy:

kirsty

the help is you need to read and read a lot. try carol garhart mooneys book theories of childhood and the lindon child development book with theory, knowledge and understanding will only come with research and reading.

Theories of development

Cognitive = Vygotsky
Vygotsky like piaget posited children learn from hand on experiences. However unlike piaget he claimed that timely and sensitive invention by adults when children are learning a new task (zone of proximal development) could help children to learn new tasks. Vygotsky also stressed the importance of social interaction he felt other children can guide each other’s development as well as adults. Vygotsky also thought that children needed to be active in their own learning and that play is important for holistic learning.

Humanist = Maslow hierarchy of needs need to be met for a child to reach full potential take anything away from that and child might never reach their potential. This is taken into account daily with the child centred care and holistic approach to child care and well being. Practitioners need to look at the environmental factors such as warmth, food clothes as well as the psychological needs like promoting self esteem, and love.

Bandura
Showed that children learnt through copying and observing, this can be applied today as if an early years worker with demonstrates an activity the child can learn to do it through copying. Or if a child has a good role model then they are likely to copy the behaviour. But if they see bad behaviour then they will copy the bad behaviour.

Behavuourist BF Skinners operant conditioning negative and positive reinforcement, this theory can be applied though stickers praise and reward for good behaviour and through disapproval, time out and ignoring unwanted behaviour.

Freud - psychonalysis
Freud’s work may not be proven but Freud’s work with unconscious actions and peoples mind skills are still used like when a child tells a lie they smile or put their hand over their mouths as if to stop the lie.

John Bowlby
Worked on attachment theories which are used in the day to day practice in education and social care at all stages they are given key workers who they build strong attachments to this helps children make transitions in their lives and to be able to make lasting friendships.

hope this gives you some ideas

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How children learn by Linda Pound
Book 1, 2 and 3