Cultural, Cultural And Socioeconomic Factors, And Social Development

In article How Kids Learn Resilience, Paul Tough argues that stress can push a child into a cycle of failure in school, harmfully impacting a child’s education and outside life. He claims that stress is apparent in every student’s life; however some have more and this stress has a direct connection on the child’s success both in school and out. Stress can be caused by many things, such as economic, family, or even social problems. The stress prevents a student from staying focused in school because they are distracted by other problems. Since they are not able to focus, they do not perform well at school, leading to bad grades, which leads to more stress. This cycle continues and the student is unable to learn as the workload gets more complicated.

This chapter focused on developmental crises. From birth through adulthood, human goes through a series of developmental cycles as the person grows and matures. Kanal (2011) sets forth even at the youngest age, children experience an array of stressors. For example, as a child begins to understand like he, she must communicate in order to have his, or her needs fulfilled, stress develops through the frustration of not being understood by the parent. The author details the complexity of life as the young person heads into and lives through adolescents. Changes to the body, sexuality, the need to be independent, and the mind’s ability to process all contribute to such stress (p. 127). It is important to mention, as the child experiences stress

There are many factors that can help a child achieve a better outcome in a school setting, as teachers we should be able to identify each of our student’s individual strengths, their pastimes and how can we support their needs so that they can master their full potential.

However, outside factors can effect children and with the correct support in place children can adapt and change very well. Outside influences whether it’s your gender, ethnicity or social status can effect learning but it has been shown that with the correct provisions children can still be successful. Nevertheless, every child is an individual and not one theory or learning style fits all. The school has to use a variety of theories and learning styles to mould successful and confident

Much of how an individual turns out to be is not only dependant on the genes in which their parents have passed down to them, but also due to the family structure in which they were raised by.

1.1 Describe the social, economic and cultural factors that will impact on the lives of children and young people.

This article begins by emphasizing that the surroundings of an adolescent posses a large impact on their physical and

Middle school learners are perhaps the most diverse group of students in education today. The differences that exist in every classroom, including gender, socio-economic class, linguistic and cultural background, learning style, and intellectual capacity, is increased by individual differences in developmental level. While all middle school students will progress through different developmental levels and display the characteristics inherent in each, they will reach and conquer these developmental milestones at difference times. Because of this difference in developmental maturity, students may also be at their most vulnerable, as they progress through stages they don’t understand and can’t control.

For instance, if a child in development is placed in a stressful environment, the possibility for the HPA axis to overload intensifies, and the consequences associated with the individual in the long term is pronounced. Tough suggest that these risk will undoubtedly jeopardize the well being of a person and may even hinder potential success in the short and long term. Moreover, Tough emphasizes this association and states, “children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concrete, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harden to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school” (Tough 17). From this, he insists the correlation between stress and success in school is clear cut. Children subject to stressful circumstances are susceptible to failure in the classroom due to the inability to develop positive classroom strategies and behavior, which often seen as the keys to success in the

For many years of human history, the developmental period of a child was truly misunderstood. The mind of a developing child was thought simply to be a miniature model of the fully developed engine of thinking. It is often hard to remember the earliest stages of the human development process. However, revered researchers like Jean Piaget, John Kohlberg, and Erik Erikson have made extensive efforts in observing the different stages of human development. In punctuating these stages, the consensus has demarcated the expanse of human growth into four major stages: Infancy (birth-2 years), Preschool (3-6 years), Middle Childhood (7-12 years), and Adolescence (12-18). The specific contributions made by the Psychologists above mentioned

Development refers to a series of age-related changes that occur over an individual’s life course. Several famous psychologists such as Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Jean Piaget describe development of an individual as a series of phases or stages. In this case, a stage refers to a period in development in which individuals exhibit typical patterns in behavior and establish certain capabilities. The various stages of development as outlined in various developmental theories and concepts that would be analyzed in the paper share three main assumptions. The firs assumption that individuals go through stages in a given order, with each phase

The Middle School years reflect on the child falling into patterns of certain behaviors and habits. This is the age where students will begin to form their study habits and focus on their social groups and connections, which in some cases can take president over their schooling. However, when a child applies themselves great growth can occur. According to School and Children: The Middle School Years, “children are thought to be functioning developmentally at what Piaget termed the concrete and formal operational stages. During this phase, basic literacy as well as computational and conceptual skills are acquired.” (Epps & Smith, 1984) Students during this phase of growth and development can work on harder skills and make greater connections between their education and their world.

When reading Chapter 9 in the Social Development by Ross D. Parke and Alison Clarke-Stewart we got to learn about Schools and media: children in an electronic age. Before reading this chapter when it comes to school it’s like the yard for socialization. In the book it sated that school has an informal agenda of socialization children y teaching them the rules, norms, and values they need to make their way in society and helping them develop the skills to interact successfully with their peers. But when the school talks about children who attend single gender school I wanted to know if they would have any effects on their socialization. In the book they stated that children who attends a single gender school do better academically and perhaps

Research on human development has been much devoted towards determining when one should expect children to be capable of certain skills. Every day, our communities develop as generations of individuals make choices and invent solutions to changing circumstances. Our ongoing daily activities, ranging from learning when to brush our teeth, to learning the numbers on a telephone. Barbara Rogoff’s The Cultural Nature of Human Development discusses cultural patterns as they relate to human development. Human development is a cultural process by which devices such as language and literacy are employed by means of learning from one another. To date, the study of human development has been largely based around research and theoretical knowledge coming from middle-class communities in Europe, as well as North America. Questions such as “When does children’s intellectual development permit them to be responsible for others?” and “When can they be trusted to take care of an infant?” are vital in recognizing cultural approaches among different cultural communities. Rogoff’s work discusses the importance of increasing the understanding of the cultural basis of our own lives as those of our neighbors and those individuals we do not know personally.

The zone of proximal development has implications for assessment, especially concerning children with learning and behavior problems. Two children can