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This course covers the key dimensions of child and adolescent development including physical, linguistic, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. It aims to provide an understanding of development processes and theories that can guide interactions with students. The document also discusses children's rights under Philippine law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as issues currently facing Filipino children such as poverty, abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

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Child and Adolescent Development Intro.1

This course covers the key dimensions of child and adolescent development including physical, linguistic, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. It aims to provide an understanding of development processes and theories that can guide interactions with students. The document also discusses children's rights under Philippine law and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as issues currently facing Filipino children such as poverty, abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

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CHILD AND ADOLESCENT

DEVELOPMENT
Course Description

This is a basic on child and adolescent


development focusing on current research
and theory on the biological, linguistic,
cognitive, social, and emotional dimensions
of development, and the factors that affect
the progress of development.
The coverage of the course is structured to cover the key dimensions of
the development of children and adolescents: physical, linguistic, cognitive,
and socio-emotional development.
The coverage of these ideas is intended to provide the future teacher with
a broad yet fairly detailed understanding of the development processes that
students undergo and do that such an understanding may be used to guide all
dealings with the students.
Course Objectives

1. Compare and contrast, organize, and synthesize the different


researches and theories related to the four broad dimensions of child
and adolescent development.
2. Observe and reflect on the applicability of the theories to children
and adolescents in their local context.
3. Articulate in their own views and ideas on how children and
adolescents grow.
4. Appreciate, value, and respect the difficult and complex processes
that students of different ages go through.
5. Express some insights regarding how the teaching and learning
process should take into consideration the various forms of
knowledge regarding child and adolescent developement
Chapter 1 The Child and Adolescent learners

I. Definition of Childhood and Adolescence


II. The Rights of Children and Young Person
III. The Situation of Filipino Children and Young Persons
Objectives:

1. Define the terms childhood and adolescent


2. Identify pertinent provisions on the rights of children and young
persons
3. Describe and analyze the present situation of Filipino children
and adolescents.
Definition of Chilhood and adolescence

a. Childhood
Childhood refers to the time or state of being a child, the early stage in
the existence or development of something. F
II The Rights of Children and Young Person

Presidential Decree No. 603 dated December 10,


1974 (Bustos, et al., 1999) listed down the Rights of
Children and Young Persons. This was aimed at
understanding children better and for the Filipino
Teacher to be more aware of the children’s rights. The
code contained the following provisions.
To understand and help children better, it is important for every
Filipino teacher to be cognizant of such rights. The provision of
the Code regarding such rights are as follows.
All children shall be entitled to the rights herein set forth
without distinction as to legitimacy or illegitimacy, sex, social
status, religion, political antecedents and other factors.
1. Every child is endowed with dignity and worth of a human being from the
moment of his conception, as generally accepted in medical parlance, and has
therefore, the right to be born well.
2. Every child has the right to a wholesome family life that will provide him
with love, care and understanding, guidance and counseling, moral and
material security.
3. Every child has the right to a well-rounded developement of his personality
to the end that he may become a happy, useful and active member of society.
4. Every child has the right to a balanced diet, adequate clothing,
suffiecient shelter, proper medical attention, and all the basic physical
requirements of a healthy and vigorous life.
5. Every child has the right to be brought up in an atmosphere of morality
and retitude for the enrichment and strenthening of his character.
6. Every child has the riht to an education commensurate with his abilities
and to the development of his skills for the improvement of his capacity for
service to himself and his fellowmen.
7. Every child has the right to full opportunities for safe and wholesome
recreation and activities, individual as well as social, for the wholesome use
of his leisure hours.
8. Every child has the right to protection against exploitation, improper
influences, hazards, and other conditions or circumstances prejudicial to his
physical, mental, emotional, social and moral damages.
9. Every child has the right to live in a community and a society that can
offer him an environment free from pernicious influences and conducive to
the promotion of his health and the cultivation of his desirble traits and
attributes.
10. Every child has the right to the care, assistance, and protection of the
state, particularly when his parents or guardians fail or are unable to provide
him with his fundamental needs for growth, development and improvement.
11. Every child has the right to an efficient and honest goverment that will
deepen his faith in democracy and inspire him with the morality of the
constituted authorities both their public and private lives
12. Every child has the right to grow up as a free individual in an atmosphere
of peace, understanding, tolerance, and universal botherhood and with the
determination to contribute his share in the building of a better world.
Under both domestic and international law, children’s right to be
potected from harm and have their basic physical and social needs provided
is a basic consideration.
Traditionally, the rights of children have been limited by considerations
about their inherent vulnerability, in particular in concerns about their
capacity to manage political and civil participatory rights.
Lately, there has beena shift in attitude toward children. Where before
the concern was only welfare-oriented, that is providing children’s basic
welfare needs, now, the children are regarded as holders of a wider range
of rights which include the right to express their views and participate in
decision making on matters directly affecting them.
The State Parties to the Convention shall:

1. Respect and ensure the rights to each child within their jurisdiction
without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the of the child’s parents
or his or her legal guardian’s race, color, sex, language, religion, political
opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, birth or other status
(Article2:1)
2.Register the child immediately after birth and have the right from birth to
a name, nationality, and right to know and be cared for by his parents.
3. Ensure that a child shall not be separated from his/her parents against his
will, except when separation in necessray for the best interests of the child
after having been determined by judicial review. (Article 14:1)
4. Recognize the rights of the child to freedom of association and peaceful
assembly (Article 15:1).
5. Not subject the child to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her
privacy, family, home, or correspondence nor to unlawful attacks on his honor
and reputation (Article 16:1)
6. Recognize the important function of mass media and ensure that the child
has access to information/material from a diversity of national and
international sources (Article 17)
7. Ensure recognition that both parents have common responsibilties for the
upbringing and developement of the child (Article 18).
8. Take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social, and educational
measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence,
injury or abuse, neglect, maltreatment and expoitation (Article 19).
9.Provide assistance to a child temporarily deprived of a family environment
(Article 20).
10.Permit a system of a adaption that shall ensure that the best ineterests
of th child shall be a paramount consideration (Article 21:1).
11. Recognize for every child the right to benefit from social security
(Article 26:1)
12. Recognize the right of the child to education with a
view to achieving this right progressively and on the basis
of equal opportunity (Article 28:1).
13. Recognize the right of the child to be protected from
economic exploitation and from performing any work that
is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s
education (Article 32:1)
III. The siruation of Filipino Children and
Young Persons
Much has been said about young children who are beaten black and
blue by parents/relatives rendering them incapable to walk or even talk
straight. Much has been writen about children who have become
victims of sexual or physical abuse, child labor, malnutrition, parental
neglect, ending up roaming streests of Metro Manila. Usually they come
from homeless poor families of Manila’s suburbs who sleep on
pavement, wooden carts, or dilapidated shacks near the raildroad
tracks, even on rickety shelters made of rusty galvanized sheets and
carboxes. The sight street childreen knocking on car windows, selling
sticks of cigarettes and sampaguita garlands, are smacks of the many
faces of poverty and the stark reality of the plight of th abadoned
children.
Efforts however, are made to address the problem. There are
youth-oriented programs/projects sponsored by NGOs and other
private and public entities primarily put up to help the Filipino
child. The child advocacy has been an on-going project of the
media, as they feature stories on youth education and child
welfare. TV networks are also instrumental in educating the
youth through a series of documentaries on child abuse and child
exploitation. Nevertheless, the problem has not been solved
completely.

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