BRONFENBRENNER'S ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM THEORY

Module 1: Human Development: Meaning, Concepts and Approaches

From this module, I realized that a human development is a pattern of movement that begins at conception and continues through the life span of a well human being. Also it includes growth and decline. The human development can be positive or negative. Growth deals with quantitative changes while development deals with qualitative changes. Development is relatively orderly. Development has proximodistal pattern that deals with the development from inward to upward. Another pattern is the cephalocaudal pattern which the development is from head to toe and from top to bottom. Development also takes place gradually. The pattern of development is more likely be similar, the outcome of development process and the rate of development are vary among individuals. Development as a process is complex because it is the product of biological, cognitive and socio-emotional process. The biological process is a physical change. The cognitive process is about knowle...

Unit 1: Learner-Centered Psychological Principles

From the module on Learner-Centered Psychological Principles, I realized that a personal development comes with different form depending on how people develop each individual self. This means that every person who's experiencing the process of development has to consider it in the level of complexity because it can be the product of different perception to our personal development such as biological, which those traits can be adopted from our parents as well as our to bloodline or cognitive, which can be acquire through the process of self learning or it might be the socio emotional which we aquire through the process of dealing with different kind of person that surrounds us. Unit 1 is a very challenging and breathtaking because of it's teaching about the development of a human from pre-natal period through the life span. From the pre-natal period I realized that from the beginning in a form of sperm and egg cell, human life is not as easy as we've thought. Here, we can ...

Module 3: Issues on Human Development

On my own perspective, I am a product of both heredity and environment. I have the process of "nature" which biological maturation and inheritance occurred. The process of "nurture" was from the impact of the environment, which involves the process of learning through experience. It was also from influences and interactions with other persons. I have believed that I am a product of heredity because I have inherit the physical appearance of my parents hence it might be in our bloodline. I have also inherited these traits such as; good quality of voice and ability to play instruments just like my father did. The environment has also a big impact in my well being just like the knowledge and insight that I have adopted from my surroundings. The way I act and the way I talk was a product of both heredity and environment. The way I dress was from my environment because if I don't dress as the other people dresses, I may be called old fashioned. But on the other side m...

The Child and Adolescent

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