Early childhood Education

GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT  

Early childhood is part growth and development process . Many physiology devide human growth in age  related  .those psychology divide human life with four or five part.

Stage of growth and development 

For human organism life  states from a fertilized ovum in the womb of the mother. Not only before birth but also after birth to many years child is helpless organism unit or unless he is help by the continuous process of growth and development and attains maturity. When one attain maturity, one is cased to be called an adolescence and labelled as and adult member of the society. He is supposed to play a responsible role in the society. Before being called as
adolescence, he is name as child or infancy. 

 With including the pre birth period, the life span of a human organism. 

    1 pre natal :(From conception to birth) 

    2 stage of infancy :(from birth to two years) 

    3  childhood :( from 3 Year to 12 years or in strict sense up to the on set of puberty. 

     4 Adolescent stage :( from 12 years to 19 years age or on set puberty to the age of maturity. 

      5 adulthood :( above  twenty years  or maturity to death)  

        THE STAGE OF  CHILDHOOD 

    Main characteristics of child hood 

1. period of  slow and steady growth : where the infancy is the period of repaid and incentive growth,  the stage of  childhood is the period as the period of slow, steady and uniform growth. Development rate, although continuous and vary slow at this stage. 

     2.  Independence : where as an infant look for help in every sort work,  even he is able to do it  independently ,in the child at this stage desires independence.  By acquiring experiences and developing physically, intellectually  , and socially he tries to  adjust him in his environment. In the stage tries social work as commper to home work. 

    3.  EMOTIONAL STABILITY AND  CONTROLL  :Childhood in the emotional aspect is the period of stability and control. Intense emotional outburst which usually find in the motor activity and physical form during infancy are rarely at this stage.  

 4  DEVELOPING SOCIAL TENDENCY : IN contest to an infant who is egocentric.  The child at this stage, develops social tendencies and the pick up so many social virtues .he like to play with group  and share other to toy.  Feeling of mutually cooperation. 

    5 Realistic  attitude :  Child at this stage being to accept and appreciate the hard realities of life. He no longer remains in the own world of the make believe,  fantasy and fairy tales. He is now a perfect realist in the place of imaginative idealistic. He being to take a close interest in the world of realities  and tries to adapt himself in the real environment.

   6 Formation of sentiment and complex : infancy is the age of invoicence . The child at this stage is  not in the habit of hiding his feelings and checking his emotions. Therefore no complex are formed at this  stage whether as childhood stage gives birth to so many complex due to in habitation ,repression etc. 

 7  sexual development :with regard of sexual development the stage is called ' lagency period. Sexual energy, generally, at this stage remain dormant but emerge with great force at the end of this stage. The sexual behaviour of the children at this stage  is characterized  by the developing of attitude of the antagonism and indifference toward to the opposite sex. 

   8 Intellectual development : this stage is the period of intellectual advancement. The rate of intellectual development quite rapid at this stage which resembles the rate of physical growth at infancy. At this stage child acquire new experiences and tries to adapt himself in his environment and prepares himself to solve the problems.