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Theories of Child Development and Their Impact on Early Childhood Education and Care
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Saracho, Olivia N. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Developmental theorists use their research to generate philosophies on children's development. They organize and interpret data based on a scheme to develop their theory. A theory refers to a systematic statement of principles related to observed phenomena and their relationship to each other. A theory of child development looks at the children's…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Development, Theories
Strengthening a Whole Child Approach within Residential Care Settings through Psychosocial Support and Nutritional Guidance
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Skar, Ane-Marthe Solheim; De Abreu, Rodrigo Marrecas; Vaughn, Marsha J. – Child Care in Practice, 2019
Malnutrition and a lack of sufficient psychosocial support from caregivers both have a tremendous effect on children's development. Initiatives to support healthy child development in a context of poverty include caregiver interventions. There is growing evidence to support interventions that integrate psychosocial and nutritional support. The…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Residential Care, Individual Development, Social Support Groups
Annual Research Review: What is Resilience within the Social Ecology of Human Development?
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Ungar, Michael; Ghazinour, Mehdi; Richter, Jorg – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The development of Bronfenbrenner's bio-social-ecological systems model of human development parallels advances made to the theory of resilience that progressively moved from a more individual (micro) focus on traits to a multisystemic understanding of person-environment reciprocal processes. Methods: This review uses…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Individual Development, Holistic Approach, Children
The Common Vision: Parenting and Educating for Wholeness. Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, Volume 48.
Marshak, David – 1997
This book describes the needs and potentials of children and youth from birth to age 21, based on a holistic understanding of what human beings are and can become. The description is based on the insights of three early twentieth-century spiritual teachers--Rudolf Steiner, Aurobindo Ghose, and Inayat Khan--whose works, the book claims, articulate…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Educational Philosophy, Holistic Approach
The Vision of Urie Bronfenbrenner: Adults Who Are Crazy about Kids
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Brendtro, Larry K. – Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2006
Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-2005) was a pioneer in studying the behavior of children in their natural life space of family, school, peer group, and community. His concept of the ecology of human development is transforming practice for effective work with children and youth. Bronfenbrenner's research highlights the power of human relationships to…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Individual Development, Ecology
On the Anthropology of Play: Play as a Way of Dialogical Development.
Herzka, H. S. – 1985
Dialogics as a philosophical principle is, like the dialectics predominant at present in all industrialized countries, based on the duality of life and thought. Dialogics postulates that two thoughts, or two aspirations, or two concepts together make up a whole, simultaneously, each being of equal importance. Play is a dialogic of doing and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Needs, Developed Nations, Holistic Approach