Assignment on Child Development Concept

Running head: CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Child Development
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CHILD DEVELOPMENT1
Assignment 1- Part 1- Child Development (Topic 2 or 3)
i. Introduction of the Concept
Heckman and Mosso (2014) claims that child development is about the period of an
individual’s progress from dependency phase to increasing autonomy one. According to
Piaget, the concept of child development has not been understood properly (Bjorklund,
2018). It is very important to focus of gaining a good understanding of the child development
concept, before proceeding to analyse the different roles of people who are involved in the
lives of children. There are many theories of child development. Waite-Stupiansky (2017)
have placed a lot of reliance on the societal relations in overcoming the stages and individual
development. The virtue that is attached to the child development is very complicated as
child tries to find out his own feet in the world and questioning the potential to do so. The
theory provided by Lev Vygotsky emphasis on social interactions of the children that helps in
determining their ultimate growth and development (Bodrova & Leong, 2017). He places
high focus on parents’ responsibility for guiding their children through this phase and helping
them in developing better. The concept is very important in teaching process. For teachers, it
is important to know so that they can be able of finding out ways and strategies for improving
the learning development skills of children. Every child is unique in his or her own way and
the child development concept can help teachers to know how to discipline them if they
misbehave in class.
ii. Definition of the Concept
Child development can be defined as the process of physical, social and cognitive growth
in children that starts right from their birth and continues throughout until they reach their
early adulthood. Walshaw (2016) in this context have opined that it is all about the period
between infancy and early adulthood. Human beings grow the most in this period and their