Jean-François Lyotard

Although a child can progress at a faster or slower rate, the average age of a child being in the sensorimotor stage is from newborn to around the age of two. During this stage, according to Sean McLeod who has studied in psychology, “The child does not perceive himself as a discrete entity within his environments.” When a baby at the park is pulling on his mother’s hair, he doesn’t have any idea how this could affect the mother. During this stage, he is only able to understand that he is…

Lawrence Kohlberg was an American psychologist best known for his work on the stages of moral development. He was born in Bronxville, New York on October 25, 1927. He was the youngest of four children and the child of Alfred Kohlberg and Charlotte Albrecht. He spent most of his adolescent life in Andover, Massachusetts where he attended Phillips Academy, a private high school. He continued his education, studying at the University of Chicago, where he earned his bachelor degree as well as his…

which Dylan and Eric were learning how to think and behave from one another through social learning and vicarious learning. The question on whether my personal world view is more like Locke or Rousseau is a difficult question for me to answer. I’ve went back and forth in my mind, examining the strengths and weaknesses of both. I tend to believe that life is both, and normally isn’t just one perspective or the other. However, I tend to lean towards Rousseau’s organismic approach. Overall,…

Section Three: Evaluation of the Book Strengths In the forward to his book, Elkind identifies his alignment with Piaget’s intellectual theory. This viewpoint is strengthened by his emphasis on the natural desire to play, qualitatively different levels, and other ideas. A specific example of this strength comes through his discussion on the age of reason. He identifies the varying ages at which this age occurs, but notes that reason is a qualitative benchmark in child development that marks the…

The learning process is a lifelong adjustment to the needs and conditions that occurs in environment which surrounds people. For that reason environment plays a major role in either positive facilitation or negative impediment regarding one’s learning. Therefore we will look into environment and its influence on physical, intellectual, emotional and social development as well as language. The process of development refers to a positive change in a life of individual from a single cell to…

Applying Ethic of Care to Student Conduct Sanctioning It is often that a student affairs practitioner finds themselves at odds with the administrative aspects of their position and their innate desire to aid in a student’s development. This contention is often at play in the realm of student conduct, as the practitioner must enforce university policies while at the same try and create a place for learning and growth. There is a value in the developmental conversations a conduct officer has with…

In this article i’m going to talk about a Theorist named Jean Piaget. He is a theorist of child development. His child development focuses on the ways the children come to know oppose to what they know. He also believes that thinking is different in each stage level. Children naturally attempt to understand things they do not know. Knowledge is gathered gradually during active involvement in real life. The first stage is the Sensorimotor stage. This stage takes place between the ages of birth…

Biophysical When babies are born the weight a little more than 7 pounds ( Ashford & Lecroy, 2010, p.246). Raziel was born completely healthy, with no problems, weighing about eight pounds. Raziel had no problems during birth according to his mother. By my observations, Raziel has been developing well, for his age. His brain development and physical growth show that Raziel is heading on the right path, his mother said that she is blessed that he came out healthy because she was sometimes nervous…

An individual is defined or made unique by an amalgamation of characteristics and qualities. This describes what personality is in a nutshell. Throughout the lifespan, human traits can be expressed either biologically or environmentally (nature vs. nurture). Thus, contextual situations can influence human development. Such circumstantial changes include "normative age-grade influences, normative history-graded influences, and nonnormative life events" (Santrock, 2013, p. 6). There are theories…

Language is more than just a means of communication. Language is a reflection of community and culture; it is an implement of power with the potential to include or exclude; it is empowering and a tool for self-expression; and it is a tool for thinking, learning and development. Language takes many different forms in written, spoken and visual capacities. Language can be heard through speech and song; it can be observed in body language, gesture, writing, Auslan, symbols and pictures; language…