Child Development Stages: Physical, Cognitive, Social Aspects
Item 3. Psychomotor Development
Physical Growth
Growth rate is intense in the first two years, then gradually stabilizes between ages 3-6. Body dimensions change; babies’ heads are proportionally larger with shorter legs. Head growth slows, limbs lengthen significantly by age 5, though still short relative to the body. The skeleton undergoes rapid calcification, bones are softer and more pliable than at age 6. Muscle mass increases from age 3. Baby teeth appear within six months, complete by age 3.
Read MoreSocial Identities: Differences, Prejudice, and Education
Abstract 1: Diversity and Difference
1. The Difference
Any analysis of reality begins by detecting similarities and differences, establishing categories based on them. Analysis involves identifying traits and classifying them based on similarities and differences.
Identifying something as equal to or different from another involves sorting and assigning value. The value assigned to classifications often implements prejudice, racism, sexism, and general intolerance of difference.
Language, used to
Read MoreNeuromarketing & The Sensory Hotel Experience
1. The Cognitive Miser: Brain Efficiency
The brain, a “cognitive miser,” avoids expending unnecessary mental effort. It prioritizes efficiency in processing information and decision-making, especially in consumer behavior. This miserliness manifests in several strategies:
- Efficiency: The brain favors shortcuts and intuitive judgments over complex processing. For example, choosing a familiar brand without comparison.
- Novelty: Attracted to new stimuli, the brain focuses on unfamiliar aspects to avoid
Criminological Positivism and Eclectic Schools
Read MoreScientific Stage: Late 19th Century
Postulates
- Determinism: The offender is predisposed to commit crimes due to genetic influence (a biological explanation).
- Empiricism: Using the empirical inductive method, focusing on the offender.
- Phenomenological: Seeking the causes conditioning the offender and the etiology of crime. Developing offender typologies.
- Therapeutic Vocation: Viewing the offender as ill with a pathological disorder. Seeking alternatives to punishment.
Criminological Positivism: Main Representatives
Lombroso
- Anthropological
Teacher’s Role & Educational Objectives in Primary Education
Functions of a Teacher
The Teaching Function
Legal Duties
- Teacher duties include programming and teaching, assessing learning, mentoring students, providing educational guidance, attending to student well-being, promoting school activities, fostering a respectful environment, reporting to families, coordinating teaching, participating in school activities, engaging in evaluation plans, and continuous improvement of teaching processes.
- Teachers perform these functions collaboratively.
Research on the
Read MoreEmotional Education: Integrating Feelings and Intellect
ITEM 5: Education of the Feelings
Feeling: Concept
Formal education emphasizes knowledge acquisition, often separating it from emotional development. This leads to:
- Emphasis on skills for economic ends, treating education as a product.
- Disconnect between skills development and personal/emotional growth.
- Limited critical examination of values in educational language.
Understanding and Feeling
- Understanding and feeling should be integrated.
- Educating a person involves refining feelings and promoting understanding.