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Basic Concepts and Issues of Human Development - Lesson 2

Human development is a lifelong process that begins at conception and continues throughout the lifespan. It involves growth and changes in biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional domains in relatively orderly patterns from the center of the body outward and from the head downward. While development follows similar patterns, the rate and outcomes of development vary between individuals and are influenced by biological and environmental factors. Development is a complex, multi-dimensional process that occurs across the entire lifespan in changing social and cultural contexts.

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Basic Concepts and Issues of Human Development - Lesson 2

Human development is a lifelong process that begins at conception and continues throughout the lifespan. It involves growth and changes in biological, cognitive, and socio-emotional domains in relatively orderly patterns from the center of the body outward and from the head downward. While development follows similar patterns, the rate and outcomes of development vary between individuals and are influenced by biological and environmental factors. Development is a complex, multi-dimensional process that occurs across the entire lifespan in changing social and cultural contexts.

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Basic Concepts and Issues of

Human Development

Trixie Mae Issobelle M. Remoroza, LPT


Human Development
• Human development is the pattern of movement or
change that begins at conception and continues
through the life span.
• It includes growth and decline.
• Development can be positive or negative.
Some Major Principles of
Human Development
Principle 1-
Development is relatively
orderly.
• Proximodistal Pattern
The proximodistal pattern of
development is where growth starts at
the centre of the body and moves
towards the extremities. An example
of such a pattern is the early
development of muscular control of
the trunk and arms relative to the
hands and fingers.
• Cephalocaudal Pattern

Cephalocaudal development is the


tendency for growth to follow a
sequence in which development
moves from top to bottom. For
example, a child's head develops much
sooner than his or her legs.
Principle 2
While the patterns of development is likely to be
similar, the outcome of developmental process and
the rate of development are likely to vary among
individuals.
Principle 3
Development takes place gradually
Principle 4
Development as a process is complex because it
is the product of biological, cognitive and socio-
emotional process.
Biological
Involves changes in the individual’s physical
nature.
Cognitive
Involves changes in the individual’s thought,
intelligence, and language.
Socio-emotional
Includes changes in the individual’s relationship
with other people, changes in emotions and
changes in personality.
Approaches to Human
Development
Traditional
Human development shows extensive change from
birth to adolescence, little or no change in
adulthood and decline in the late old age.
Life-span
Human development occurs all throughout the
life-span of an individual
Characteristics of Life-
span Development
Life-long
It does not end by adulthood and no development
stage dominates the development.
Multi-dimentional
Development consists of biological, cognitive, and
socio-emotional dimensions.
Plastic
Development is possible throughout the life-span.
Contextual
Individuals are changing beings in a changing world.
Growth, Maintenance and
Regulation
These are considered goals that varies in every
developmental change.
Principles of Child
Development and Learning that
Inform Practice
All the domains of development and
learning (physical, social, emotional
and cognitive) are important and
closely-related.
Development and learning proceed
at varying rates from child to child,
as well as at uneven areas across
different areas of a child’s individual
functioning.
Development and learning result
from a dynamic and continuous
interaction of biological maturation
and experience.
Development and learning occur in
and are influenced by multiple social
and cultural contexts.
Always mentally active in seeking to understand
the world around them, children learn in a
variety of ways; a wide range of teaching strategies
and interactions are effective in supporting all
these kinds of learning.
Play is an important vehicle for
developing self-regulation as well
as promoting language, cognition
and social competence
Children’s experiences shape their
motivation and approaches to learning such
as persistence, initiative and flexibility; in
turn, these dispositions and behaviors affect
their learning and development.
Activity Time!

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