child development

There are two definitions of child development, the first comes from Wikipedia: “child development refers to the biological and psychological changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy”, the second is from the Inter-American Development Bank: “child development is a multifaceted, integral, and continual process of change in which children become able to handle evermore complex levels of moving, thinking, feeling, and relating to others”. Although the two carry reason, I’m more in agreement with the second, because child development, in my opinion, it as to be a continuous processes.

The article said that: child development changes depending on family, friends, context, society (technology). And the teacher has to adapt to changes. Also, there are authors as:

-        ´-   Piaget: he was interested in cognitive development → individually

-          - Lev Vygotsky: he was interested in social construction. He said that teachers must know children circunstances. Is important the family for the language and the child interaction

-          - Barbara Rogoff: she was interested in the interactions in groups, culture,..She thinks that the children learnt being active participants in the real-life events.

-          - Urie Bronfennbrenner: that child development depends of experience (family), culture, language and systems (society)

-          - Judy Dunn: thinks that the conventions governing interactioins in family and context. Salliste common.