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An education provides people not only with the academic skills required, but also the social skills such as having the self confidence and belief in ones self to achieve a fulfilling and happy life. It is every child’s human right to receive such an education from early years to higher, and therefore several stages in which they must travel for this to happen.

Child`s development must be seen holistically as each area of development are connected with and affects every other area of development.

In terms of numeracy, the children were drawing a variety of shapes in the sand which allowed me to use new words with them to further develop their vocabulary. I also used everyday words to help reinforce their existing vocabulary in a new context.

that are dealt with by human nature. Power structure, the ranking of classes, rights, and

The education of children has existed since the beginning of time as parents have taught and molded their children into the young adults they desired them to be. Initial training of children was not in a formal setting, although history would see numerous settings, purposes, and methodological changes. Philosophies of education have also changed through the years as various voices have seemed to grasp the purpose of educating the next generation, thus laying out objectives to reach those goals of teaching children.

Younger kids can learn how to count and the alphabet along with multiple other skills such as sharing and manners on some educational TV shows like Sesame Street. Teenagers and older children can learn about the world around them by watching the news, documentaries, and reading articles from reliable sources (Source 1, paragraph 6-7). A quote from the

Development of a child have been a thing that most of the parents have been neglecting without noticing that it is very important in the development of a child’s character and social

The social stratification of people can be affected by many things. In most cases people are affected by economic factors. In class we watched documentaries that shows different economic struggles and other structural inequalities. The documentaries were Violence Next Door: Growing up in the Favelas and The Other Side of Immigration. They both showed different economic factors from different places.

You need to be able to use different strategies and resources in order to develop mathematical skills in young children, you can do this through focused activities as well as using the learning environment to stimulate children’s learning.

learn addition,subtraction, how to write their numbers, and basic multiplication and division. They also learn to recognize and create patterns, and they learn concepts of volume. At six years old, they learn to count off of a certain number, more complex division and multiplication, and they begin studying ratios, fractions and percents. From ages eight to eleven, they continue practicing these concepts, albeit with larger numbers. From ages twelve to fifteen, they learn basic algebra, (trying to find the value of the x variable of equations) and geometry (complex shapes, angles, and ratios). If desired, they can learn calculus, trigonometry, and consumer math, depending on their field of work.

The authors noted in their article that their past and current experiences have included children struggling with the concept of counting. When working with students, the authors

In addition, the resources in a society are unevenly distributed. An example of this is, the wealth distribution in the United States, where the top twenty percent have seventy-two percent of the wealth of the country, and the bottom twenty percent only control about three percent, that is a great deal of inequality (Inequality.org, 2017). When social inequality comes to mind, we often think about our society and how it is structured into different classes. One way we do this is by labeling classes by labeling society as containing the upper class, the working class, the middle class, and the lower class. These class

social structure, and those with fewer resources represent the lower levels of social class. Social

Structure, agency, and structuration play a significant role in social inequality. Social structure are things that are outside a person’s control, but still affect the person. Agency is the actions of individuals and each person’s choices. Structuration is referring to how each person’s life is shaped by uncontrollable influences, structure, and by their own choices, agency. An example of social structure affecting agency would be growing up in a poor neighborhood effecting what kind of education you receive. Poorer neighborhoods typically have a lower quality school, resulting in a lower quality education. In every society, there is a cultural norm, or an expected “right” behavior. When

Home-schooling is a type of schooling completed from the home, which is usually instructed by the caregiver. Home-schooling is slowly becoming more popular, both nationally and internationally. A common conception which many people have about home-schooling is how this impacts on children’s social development (Lebeda 2007, p. 102). Realistically children who are home-schooled and children who are main-steam schooled, are both open to potentially of having social abnormalities (Romanowski 2006, p. 125). Due to the common debate of home-schooling and how this impacts on socialisation, this study will focus on three themes which have emerged from the literature surrounding this topic. The themes include, the impact of home-schooling on social, emotional and psychological development, the efforts which parents make to ensure their children are provided adequate time to develop social skills and what activities and resources home-schooled children are presented with or have access too. The literature which has been sourced and referenced to throughout this study, has been from mostly the United States and the United Kingdom, therefore already presenting motivation for further research on this topic in relation to Australia is needed. The study has determined a number of potential gaps, where a need for further research is suggested.