When discussing how children develop and the various phases and stages that they go through, it becomes apparent that there is often more complexity to this area of study than one may initially realize. A child’s development can be broken up in to different categories and age ranges. Walter, a nine-year-old student in the fourth grade, would fall into the middle childhood time frame of development, which is identified for children between the ages of seven and twelve. Having given Walter this specific classification, one can use the accompanying guidelines and characteristics that are usually associated with middle childhood, in order to determine how his actions and behaviors, gathered through observation, correspond.
Looking at development in terms of the social-emotional branch, Erik Erikson is a person who studies child development, and has classified children like Walter, who are in middle childhood, as undergoing a time period of industry versus inferiority. As explained in the textbook, a child who is classified under the category of industry, is explained as being adventurous and explorative. On the other hand, a child who is classified under the category of inferiority, is explained as being more reserved, less adventurous, and feeling a sense of failure. Walter’s behaviors are demonstrative of his sense of industry rather than inferiority. When assigned the classroom job of being “teacher’s assistant,” he performed the assigned tasks with pride, walking around the classroom freely to check on his fellow classmates. Also, during recess, Walter ran around and played energetically, actively, and excitedly on the playground. A child of more inferior personality, would likely not want a job such as this one and would prefer...
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All in all, Walter’s development during the time period of middle childhood, is progressing as it should normally. In correspondence to the various development ideas and theories explained in the textbook, Walter’s mentioned actions and activities/lessons in which he participates in at school are indicative of or relate to such concepts. Walter’s social emotional development in Erikson’s category of industry vs. inferiority, cognitive development in Piaget’s concrete operations, as well as information processing, and more, when observed both separately and together as a whole, help to construct and/or somewhat reinforce the theories about middle childhood for children between the ages of seven and twelve.
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Lightfoot, Cynthia, Michael Cole, and Sheila Cole. The Development of Children. 7th ed. New York, NY: Worth, 2013. Print.
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