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PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT This week we reviewed classroom rules, good behaviour and practice using positive words with one another. Children were reminded that showing love to each and everyone is very important to maintain peace and unity in our group. We talked that we are responsible of the outcomes or consequences of our words and actions, so its good to always think ahead what's best interest for ourselves and others as well. Children were also reminded to be sensitive…

Methodology Research Design Objectivism versus Constructivism Objectivism has been the main framework in many fields including education and HRM. Traditional approaches to learning and human relationships are based on behaviouristic and cognitive theories that hold philosophical assumptions of objectivism. The main assumptions of objectivism are the following. First, a real world exists which is made of entities with properties and relations; also, properties predict their categorisation…

counseling are greater than expected. First and foremost, psycho-social is defined as relating to the interrelation of social factors and individual thought and behavior. (Dictionary, 2012) Thus, the difference between all these issues is the fact that they all cater for different aspects in life. For instance, psychology deals with behavior and cognitive processes, whereas, sociology deals with how various groups interact with each other. Likewise, psychiatry deals with the diagnosis and…

Plants. Animals. Human beings. Where do we stand in the hierarchy of nature? To be able to answer this successfully, one must first define what each organism is. In doing this, one is able to differentiate humans from other beings in the world. Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, states that what sets us apart from other animals is our rationality. In his work Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle outlines his concept of rational choice. By analyzing the characteristics that make humans stand out…

Everyday Life compared to Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality, assessed the daily social occurences of everyday life that create the basis of people’s behavior through social interactions. The extensively observe the interactions of people in a variety of scenarios as their learned behavior is applied to those certain situations. Their observations reveal how the social interactions of individuals create the social reality in which people live. Furthermore, they…

Many people have speculated the cause behind school shootings is mainly violent video games. No one ever thinks about other causes. The real problem may be much deeper than that. There are several ingredients that go into the cocktail of violence ,that is so prevalent in our society. When tragedy hits and horrific happenings occur, we scramble for a quick answer and a quick fix. The senseless tragedies that happen are unnecessary. It proves that catastrophes can strike anywhere and anytime. Our…

Immigrants face many problems when they are in a place so different to what used to be their home, where they grew up. Many of them do not have English and that is a challenge that most face. English being your second language could cause many troubles from finding a job to purchasing your weekly shop. Many have to take low paid jobs due to the language barrier. A way in which this problem could be overcome is by immigrants taking ESL (English as a Second Language) classes. The problem with that…

The field of case management has several roles. Within this field of study, workers will have to anticipate unexpected situations. The therapist model provides one on one counseling for individual with their areas of concerns. This could range from serious health issues to mental health as well as addiction problems. Our course readings states that some individual will require intensive and ongoing attention while others will require ongoing attention but less intensive involvement (Frankel, A.…

Horace quotes that “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which is prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” I believe Horace is right because adversity causes difficulty and people perform better than they would if they were not facing adversity. Adversity is a difficult or unlucky situation or event. When circumstances or situations work against someone, they face adversity. In the book Unbroken, the main character Louis Zamperini faces many obstacles that test his mortality.…

In the article, The Lucifer Effect, by Philip Zimbardo, he analyzes the likelihood for individuals to deviate from “normal” behavior as consequence of the Power of The Situation. He suggest that individuals have the potential to be both good or evil and the line between them is permeable and susceptible to change depending on various situations. On of the focal points in his research is the Stanford experiment. This experiment intended to investigate the tendency of people fulfilling society’s…