people strive for understanding. Sparking up interest of psychology in people such as Sigmund Freud who established the stages of psychosexual stages of development believed that a crisis occurs at every stage of the developmental process and Erik Erikson who established the psychosocial stages of development and like Freud, Erikson assumes that a crisis will occur at each stage of development. For Erikson, these crises are of a psychosocial nature because they involve psychological needs of the…
With the help of the interdisciplinary team a foot surveillance program was created. Two assessment tools were developed with the intent of providing an initial assessment, and a monthly and annual assessment to detect foot issues in their early stages. A patient education program was developed to teach patients how to perform adequate self-care and promote their awareness. According to Valabhji (2011) the speed of referrals to the proper provider can be crucial to optimizing outcomes. By…
believe Mike continued to be limited during other stages of his development. For example, according to Deiner and Deiner (2010) children at between the ages of 5 and 6 begin to demonstrate pre-academic skills. Because of Mike’s age (8 years-old), I believe his human…
DCSF (2008) informs teachers that high quality teaching and learning consists of designing highly focused lesson plans with high demands of pupil engagement. Teachers should design lesson plans, which identify reasonable adjustments and special educational provision for specific children. They can do this by focusing on varied questioning techniques, modelling and clear explanations, because of which teachers can ensure that individual needs are…
GLOBAL VS. MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION From a global perspective when we view multicultural education and global education, the primary focus is the approaches in which each process is received or provides instruction based on the particulars of the theories and practices given to gain the acquired knowledge provided. Over the past three decades organizations both domestic and abroad organizations, governments, educators, etc. have been personally involved themselves in the promoting of…
2% of GDP in total. (Larock 13). Despite this large investment towards educating children, U.S. children are just fourteenth in the world in terms of academic performance (“Which Countries Have the Best Schools?”). In order to improve the subpar educational status, the United States must implement a two-part cost-effective solution to assist the lowest-performing districts and students, which will increase the success of low-income students to match the level of high income students, and raise…
Compare and Contrast Two Educators Piaget and Vygotsky are two influential theorists whose contributions are tremendous in the field of developmental and educational psychology (Lourenco, 2012). This paper aims to briefly discuss their theories, shed lights on the similarities and differences in their theories, and consider the educational implications of these two approaches. The Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky Piaget envisioned that cognitive development is a universal process in which he…
Introduction In this essay, I plan to document my experience volunteering at INK, the Interactive Neighborhood for Kids, and connect said experience to the ideas and concepts of Educational Psychology, specifically those covered in EDUC 2130. Some topics I will address include the practice of cooperative learning, play-based learning, and theories of development, both personally and socially. The Interactive Neighborhood for Kids I completed my field experience at the Interactive Neighborhood…
Intertwined Psychologists Many developmental psychologists have made their mark on the science of how humans change over time. Such individuals as Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud have developed various cognitive stages that craft an outline for the way the mind changes throughout life. Their ideas serve as a great basis of understanding by themselves, but crossing points have been linked with other psychologists’ theories to create an entire sphere of developmental psychology. The theories of…
remember as a child, my everlasting promise was wanting to take care of my dad when I was older, to cook for him, to buy him a house, and buy him all of the cars he wanted. Due to my studies on Freud’s Psychosexual Stages, I know that at this time, I was in my phallic stage. This stage explains my desire to marry the parent of my opposite sex and take care of him like my mother did. Because I am not a boy, I developed…