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Aspects of Human Development

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD AND ADOLESCENT

Changes in the body, brain, sensory, capacities, and motor skills.


Exert major influence on both intellect and personality.
INTELLECTUAL/COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Changes in a wide variety of mental abilities such as learning, memory, reasoning, thinking
and facility with language; related to both motor and the emotional aspect of development.
Personality and Social Development

 Personality is the unique way in which each person deals with the
world, expresses emotions and gets along with other individuals.
 Social development is that which affects birth the physical and
cognitive aspects of functioning.
Moral Development

Aware of what is right or what is wrong; to


unfold standards or habits that have to do with
right or wrong conduct.
Spiritual Development

 An evolved refinement of thought and feeling of the spirit or soul as


distinguished from the body or material matters.
 A consciousness; of religion or the church.
Context and Development

Context - This term refers to the situation or circumstances in which an event


occurs...the particular setting in which the event occurs.

Families
Peers
School
Community and culture
Socio-economic status
Family context can be described as the structure of the family, resources in
the home, and relationships between family members.
The family serves as the primary socializing agent for the child.
This domain is assessed using four sub-domains:
1) parental engagement, which includes measures such as attending their
child’s activities and knowing their friends;
2) home environment aspects such as smoking in the home, considering the
home a safe environment, and parent involvement in exercising;
3) guardian functioning, such as parental physical and mental health status;
and
4) the child’s health care coverage
Neighborhood context (peers) provides the immediate social contexts
around which a child interacts with others and institutions in the
community.
Assessing neighborhood context includes four sub-domains:
1) measures of the supportiveness of the neighborhood to parenting;
2) supportiveness of neighborhood interactions and neighborliness;
3) school safety; and
4) neighborhood safety.
School
The context concept characterizes schools as dynamic systems that
influence a broad range of dimensions of student learning, including
academic, affective, social, and behavioral domains.
A school's context shapes the core processes of teaching and learning in
classrooms.
Community and culture
Cultural background gives children a sense of who they are.
The unique cultural influences children respond to from birth, including
customs and beliefs around food, artistic expression, language, and religion,
affect the way they develop emotionally, socially, physically, and linguistically.
Socio-economic status
Socio-demographic contextual factors include
four sub-domains:
1) measures of family income;
2) parental education;
3) size of household; and
4) household composition.
RESEARCH IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
Teachers are both producers of knowledge
when they conduct research
and
are consumers or end users of knowledge
when they utilize findings
to improve instruction
.
RESEARCH IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

Research Design. Researches that are done with high level of quality and
integrity provide us with valuable information about child and adolescent
development.
Case Study.
Correlational Study
Experimental
Naturalistic Observation
Longitudinal Studies
Cross-sectional.
Sequential
Action Research
RESEARCH IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

Data-Gathering Techniques
a)Observation.
b)Physiological Measures.
c)Standardized.
d)Interviews and Questionnaires.
e)Life-History Records.
RESEARCH IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
Ethical Principles in Research
 Research procedures must never harm children physically, or
psychologically.
 Children and their families have the right to full information about the
research in which they may participate, including possible risks and
benefits. Their decision to participate must be based on ‘informed
consent.”
 Children’s questions about the research should be answered in a truthful
manner and in ways that children can understand. Researchers must be
honest and clear in their communications.
 There should be respect for privacy. Information obtained through
research with children should remain confidential.
RESEARCH IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

R.A. 10173 – The Data Privacy Act of 2012.


This law was passed in the Philippines “to protect the fundamental human right of privacy
communication while ensuring free flow of information to promote innovation and growth.”
RESEARCH IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT

Research has a transformative effect on teachers’ self- understanding


and on their classroom practice. It enables teachers to develop a better
understanding of themselves, their classrooms, and their practice through
the act of reflective inquiry.

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