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Tarlac State University

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION


Professional Education Department

The Child & Adolescent Learner and


Learning Principles
ISSUES ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Each of us has his/her own informal way of looking at our own and other people's
development. These paradigms of human development while obviously lacking in
scholastic vigor, provide with a conceptual framework for understanding ourselves
and others. Scholars have come up with their own models of human development.
Back up by solid research, they take stand on issues human development.

1. Nature vs. Nurture - Which has a more significant influential on human


development? Nature or nurture? Nature to an individual biological inheritance. Nurture
refers to environmental experiences.
In my own opinion and also from what I’ve learned in my research, nurture has more
significant influential on one’s development. We are all born as tabula rasa which
means our mind begins with blank state, everything we learn, every change we face,
and all of our knowledge are determined by our experiences. These experiences are
environmental factors that have a huge influence on human development. How a
person acts, speaks language, treats other people etc. are all influenced by their
environment and experiences such as how their parents treat them, and it can be
adapted to other people.
2. Continuity vs. Discontinuity - Does development involve gradual, cumulative
change (continuity) or distinct changes (discontinuity). To make it more concrete, here
is a question : Is our development like that of a seedling gradually growing into an
acacia tree? Or is it more like that of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly?
In my own thoughts and based on what I have researched, I agree with discontinuity.
The process of human development has different stages, it is like a caterpillar becoming
a butterfly because as time goes by people face stages in their lives that make their
ability and their way of thinking different from nature. My own example is when a child
develops his skills in basketball; before he was able to develop those skills, he will first
undergo through the different stages to fully build up his ability. Development is not just
a straight and smooth path, but it is like a ladder of stages.
3. Stability vs. Change - Is development best described as involving stability or as
involving change? Are we what our first experiences have made of us or do we develop
into someone different from who we were at an earlier point in development?
Along with nature versus nurture, I also believe that development involves change, my
own thoughts are supported by what I have researched. We turn into someone different
from who we were because we are being influence by environmental factors. My best
example is an introvert child is not naturally born shy to others. He or she becomes
introvert because of different factors like maybe he experienced being bullied. And also,
our personality changes by interactions to others such as friends, family and enemies.

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