FCS-2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: List Of Fables Characters, Scientific Method, Socioeconomic Status
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Why is caring for children important? (part i) Development: the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span. It involves growth, but it also includes decline. To become a better parent or educator. To provide better services to children and families. To gain some insight about how your childhood experiences have shaped the person you are today. Improving the lives of children: health/well-being, parenting, education, sociocultural contexts and diversity. Context: the settings, influenced by historical, economic, social, and cultural factors, in which development occurs: culture: the behavior patterns, beliefs, and all other products of a group that are passed on from generation to generation. Ses implies inequalities: gender: the characteristics of people as males and females. Some children develop confidence in their abilities despite negative stereotypes about their gender or their ethnic group and some children triumph over poverty or other adversities, these children show resilience.