Assignment on Transition Theory
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Assignment on Transition Theory
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TRANSITION THEORY2Introduction The main body of the paper will begin with a brief introduction of Singapore within the context of how the society perceives children and their significance in the economy of thecountry. The next step will be discussing adult transition and childhood transition independently by providing examples by discussing the example within the Singaporean context. Having successfully discussed this, next the paper will discuss the transition in line with given theories such as the self-efficacy theory and self-determination theory. The constructivist model will be used to enforce the theories to better explain how well a child assimilates to the environment around them. Main bodySingapore despite its size does not have any natural resources. People are its only resource. Since Singapore attained its independence in 1965, the economic success and prosperity enjoyed by the country can be associated with the people as its key asset for remaining competitive. They have an inverse population with a majority in the population being the ageing and they have small sized families. Due to this children are a valuable asset in the economy as they are perceived as the future for the unforeseen future. The Singapore family size is small and its population is ageing. Children are regarded as valued members of the family and the country’s greatest asset and future. As such, great importance is placed on their well-being, health, education, and development regardless of their racial, religious, and socio-economic background. To protect them, the children deserve a childhood free from abuse and neglect and are required to have their basic physical, intellectual, emotional, and their social needs attended to. Due to their nature compared to adults, children are vulnerable creatures and cannot protect themselves in the same manner as adults, therefore it is up to the government to ensure that they are protected (O’Grady 2011).
TRANSITION THEORY3Adult transitionsThe concentration of students’ progress in education is so often on transition from school to employment or school to institutions of higher learning. However, we are living in aknowledge economy characterized by the redefinition of jobs, technology making jobs obsolete, global village making job boundaries blurry necessitates the need to consider other kinds of transition within the realm of education throughout life (Meiser & Willyerd 2010). Recognizing this new phenomenal makes millennials view learning from a new perspective, with persons aggressively inferring their environments, managing their work trail, and their learning needs to arm them with self-management and work-future planning talents. As such the economy must avail adults with a chance to further their education to support the economic efficiency and assure social equity reasons. Furthering their education needs them to have access to different forms of post-school education (Pellegrino & Hoggan 2015). Singapore is quite an industrialized nation. The legal adult age in Singapore is 21; emerging adults in an industrialized nation navigate through multiple significant transition as seen above. The transition occurs in a rapidly changing society. However, this kind of transition poses psychological difficulties especially for the millennials (Wyn 2014). Singapore does not have a sole threshold age of majority for all purposes. Maturity is attainedas an on-going process, with a progressive escalation in civil privileges and responsibilities. Millennials are faced with several challenges; students from NTU developed a website to answer some of these everyday questions(Young et al. 2011b). The campaign was dubbed How to Adult, targeting those between the age 21 and 27 with fewer than three years of working experience. The campaign runs on Facebook, Instagram, and the Website providing with a variety of information on adulthood in a Singaporean context. A week after the website had being launched it had attracted more than 2000 followers and the numbers continued growing (Wyn 2014).
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