Social Development In Early Childhood Education

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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE
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Social Development
Social development is when a child learns to interact with one another as he develops, gain
communication skills, perceive individuality while processing his actions.
Erikson’s theory
The Erikson theory considers impacts of parents, society, personality and external factors on
child development. In the trust and mis trust, children understand adults can be trusted, when
parents meet their needs. Infants depend entirely on care givers and when caregivers meet the
needs of the infant, trust is build-up between them .The second stage, toddlers between 1-3 years,
begin to learn on what they can control within their environment and clearly show interest on
what they see such as food (Gilleard and Higgs, 2015 P.301).
Strengths and Limitations
The frame work enlightens us on the nature of human beings, their development through an
entire life and importance of socialization in development in human life. Besides, the framework
educates on the different stages of child development and informs them to deal with the different
crisis children experience. However, the theory fails to give mechanisms of solving conflicts. and
the processes of moving from one stage to the next are not well outlined.
Impact of socio-cultural and social development
Children development is influenced by social and cultural environment. Different children
respond differently to the different environment. Environment that a child is developed will
determine whether a child can move from one stage to the next (Batra, 2013 P. 249).

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Development entails learning and personal Improvement which can only be done when there are
people like teachers and parents to support.
Interrelatedness of Social and Language Development
Social interactions with small children play an important role in child language development.
Developing children learn new language basically by communicating and responding to them
may be equally helpful as a social interaction (Pekarek Doehler, 2013 P. 134).
language development
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children understand and can communicate in their early childhood as they grow.
Theories of Language development
According to Chomsky, human beings are born with ability for language, language is
complicated with so many combinations of sounds and phrases. Language mechanism is an
innate process. He agued that all children have internal constraints which narrow the grammar
they use (Shakouri and Shokouhi, 2015 P .73). Bruners theory indicates that, for children to
understand and learn a language, they require interaction with people or from their primary care
givers. About Albert Bandura, imitation is the learning principle of social cognition. Language is
learned through imitation.
Limitation of theories.
Children often have difficulties repeating what caregivers are saying A child has to imitate at
least a part of the surrounding to develop different languages and their accents. In Albert