Sishu Porjobekshon 1st Year Rita Publication

Sishu Porjobekshon 1st Year Rita Publication 2024

Unit-1: Perspectives in Development            

• Introduction to perspectives in development — Concept of development (meaning, principles and objectives).
• Development as multidimensional and plural
•  Development through the life span (stages)
• Developmental ways as continuous and discontinuous.
• Childhood as modern construct (knowledge- creator) in the context of poverty, globalization and modern culture
• Commonalities and diversities within the notion of childhood with reference to Indian context

Unit-2: Physical-Motor Development           

• Growth and Maturation
• Gross and fine motor development skills in infancy, pre-school children and elementary children
• Role of parents and teachers in providing opportunities for physical-motor development, for example, play.

Unit-3: Social Development            

• Concept of socialization: Family environment, Parent-child relationships, Child rearing practices
• Separation of parents : Children in creches, orphanages etc.
• Schooling: peer influences, Teacher-child relationships, out of school experiences
• Development of children through socialization process
• Personality development— Freudian stages of development
• Psycho-social development— stages as proposed by Erikson
• Social theories and Gender development-meaning of gender roles, influences of gender roles, stereotypes and gender in playground