I feel young children develop through a combination of play interactions with others, through their culture and their environment. I feel everything a child does is a learning experience, whether good or bad. Learning experiences are contributing factors to a child’s development. My theory is called Freeman’s Child Development Theory. I believe there are five stages of development. The first stage would be pre-birth. The second would be the noticing of life stage, which occurs between the ages of the ages of birth to two years old. The third stage would be the experimental stage, which occurs between the ages of three years old to five years old. The fourth stage would be would be the foundation stage, which occurs between the ages of six
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In healthy solution to the crisis of each stage, the positive pole dominates, but Erickson maintained that some exposure or commitment to the negative side is sometimes inevitable” (Santrock, 2013). I find this to be important because too often you will find people who will beat themselves up for the negative and not realizing sometimes it happens and we have no control over it. I feel like he is stating that sometimes when being a teacher, you will have the great behavior children who will have a bad day and guess what that is okay. I agree with Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory because like I stated earlier and have found this to be true in my theory is that behavior, environment and cognition are all important roles in development. I feel Erickson and Bandura while they have different perspectives you can use the two as a guide and apply it to children that I have worked with. The book stated “Bandura’s most recent model of learning and development includes three elements: behavior, the person/cognition, and the environment” (Santruck, 2013). My theory states that learning experiences are the most important and can have the most impact and I feel that the both of these include that in their theory some shape or form for example in the Bandura states that a young boy who sees his father act out aggressively he begins to act out aggressively due to learning that behavior from his father. I don’t agree with Freud’s Theory because I found it difficult applying to real life and being able to look at different children and saying yes I see this stage in full
In healthy solution to the crisis of each stage, the positive pole dominates, but Erickson maintained that some exposure or commitment to the negative side is sometimes inevitable” (Santrock, 2013). I find this to be important because too often you will find people who will beat themselves up for the negative and not realizing sometimes it happens and we have no control over it. I feel like he is stating that sometimes when being a teacher, you will have the great behavior children who will have a bad day and guess what that is okay. I agree with Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory because like I stated earlier and have found this to be true in my theory is that behavior, environment and cognition are all important roles in development. I feel Erickson and Bandura while they have different perspectives you can use the two as a guide and apply it to children that I have worked with. The book stated “Bandura’s most recent model of learning and development includes three elements: behavior, the person/cognition, and the environment” (Santruck, 2013). My theory states that learning experiences are the most important and can have the most impact and I feel that the both of these include that in their theory some shape or form for example in the Bandura states that a young boy who sees his father act out aggressively he begins to act out aggressively due to learning that behavior from his father. I don’t agree with Freud’s Theory because I found it difficult applying to real life and being able to look at different children and saying yes I see this stage in full