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What Young Children Learn
Everything
children learn depends on the context provided by their families, including their
environment, interactions, activities, etc.
The home is the center of children’s development, and families are their
first and most enduring teachers.
Most
of this learning doesn’t happen through direct teaching but simply by children
observing his or her parents in daily life. There are four main types of
learning in young children (LG Katz, 1994).
Review Handout: What Young Children Learn
The Ecological Systems Model (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) sees the child at the center of layers of concentric circles of environmental influences. In other words, the child is first a member of a family (microsystem), which is part of a community (mesosystem), within increasingly large environmental contexts (exosystem and macrosystem). Another way to view this model is to think of them as Russian dolls that nest inside each other from largest to smallest.
- Learned feelings
- Skills
- Knowledge
- Attitudes about learning
Review Handout: What Young Children Learn
The Ecological Systems Model (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) sees the child at the center of layers of concentric circles of environmental influences. In other words, the child is first a member of a family (microsystem), which is part of a community (mesosystem), within increasingly large environmental contexts (exosystem and macrosystem). Another way to view this model is to think of them as Russian dolls that nest inside each other from largest to smallest.
Culture shapes our beliefs about what children and parents
should be like, and how they should interact.
Families then socialize their children according to their values. The ways in which children are viewed, touched,
disciplined, taught, and spoken to are all deeply influenced by families’
systems of beliefs and behaviors. These
may be different from the child caregiver’s own values and beliefs but are not
less valid.
Children’s feelings about themselves also originate from their families’ beliefs, which have lifelong impact on development and learning. While providers may know a lot about child development, families must be recognized as the experts on their individual child. High quality care for children can only be achieved when families are treated with respect and acknowledged as their child’s most important teacher.
Children’s feelings about themselves also originate from their families’ beliefs, which have lifelong impact on development and learning. While providers may know a lot about child development, families must be recognized as the experts on their individual child. High quality care for children can only be achieved when families are treated with respect and acknowledged as their child’s most important teacher.
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