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Learning and Development for Early Childhood

   

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Running head: LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR EARLY CHILDHOODContemporary Perspectives of Learning and Development for Early childhoodName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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1LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR EARLY CHILDHOODIntroductionThe purpose of this essay is to prioritize the issue that the quality of the lives of youngchildren should be enhanced through various initiatives and development of program dedicatedfor the brain development and learning purpose of the children in their early childhood. What Istrongly believe is that the educators who have specialized on providing early childhoodeducation are actually on the same page with the scholars who has provided various perspectivesand learning theories for the young children. It is seen that the theories are a compilation ofvarious ideas or notions in a collective manner that aims to describe a specific topic that ispresent in the domain of early childhood learning. The theories are prepared with utilizingvarious rational forms of generalized and abstract thought process. Apart from that, it can be saidthat the theories in this field are often developed by some general principles that are most of thetimes independent from what is being explained with the help of the theory. DiscussionThe theories regarding early childhood learning actually leaves the young children andtheir learning process in a way that have consequences for the ways of teaching learning andalso to understand how the learning of the young children can be developed. It can be saidthat there are numerous courses, which are developed for the betterment of the earlychildhood learning (Dinehart, 2015). Some of the significant theorists in this subject hailingfrom the western world are Vygotsky, Skinner, Chomsky, Rogoff and many more. Thesephilosopher’s or theorist’s theories are important in guiding and helping the professionalswho educate the children in their early childhood. Had it been there inadequate theories inthis field, it would have been majorly difficult to learn for the young children.
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2LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR EARLY CHILDHOODIt is seen that the educators who provide education to the children who are in their earlychildhood, they tend to develop a series of beliefs that gets passed down from onegeneration to another by various training and developmental programs and classroomteaching. The most important thing in this context is that the until and unless these theoriesprovided by the theorists are tested and examined, they do not become as helpful as theymight appear; though there are ample theories and beliefs that are somewhat taken forgranted and they require critical evaluation (Blair & Raver, 2016). In this regard, it is worth mentioning that there are a variety of theories that inform theapproaches to the learning and development of the children, and those can be labeled orcategorized into five chief categories. Those categories are 1.Socio-cultural theories2.Critical theories3.Developmental theories4.Socio-behaviorist theories5.Post-structuralist theoriesThe developmental theories were developed with the contribution of Piaget, Steiner,Gardener and Montessori. The focus of developing the developmental theory is to emphasizeon the continuous and discrete stages of development of the children in their developmentalearly childhood (Maloney et al., 2015). In contemporary times, the educators are largelydependent on the developmental theories and they respond and plan their course of actionsaccording to the theories in relation to their stages of development.
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