Pedagogy

Any art historian can point to paintings where children are painted as miniature adults with adult proportions as in 13th century representations of the Madonna and child. Children of the period , once they had passed infancy would have been treated as mini adults, dressed in adult clothing, and from the age of about 7 or 8 , been expected to learn a trade and to work. They would also have been punished for their misdeeds in the same way as an adult on the same charge. From 1597 child criminals...

Family Observation The subject of the observation is a young family.  The mother is of GermanIrish descent and is 31 years old.  The father is from GermanItalian descent and is 30 years old.  Their daughter is 18 months old.  The father is a full time contractor.  He has a masters degree in mechanical engineering and is a part time graduate student working on a masters degree in engineering management.  The mother stopped working full time nine months after the baby...

Holding and Touching Holding the infants close to the body of the mother or caregiver is desirable, often up to 8 hours a day. Holding and touching gives the infants a sense of  security. The infants who are placed in cradles or high chairs feel deprived and will lack the emotional bond. Sleeping arrangements Mother and infant should sleep together .This helps in better communication between the mother and the infant. This creates a healthy rhythm of emotional bond between the mother and the...

One of the most important facets of human life is the childhood stage wherein a child has to be protected and nurtured in the best way the parents can.  Promoting development of children involves educating them and providing them the best environment that is suitable for acquiring new forms of learning. This research aims to determine whether the voucher scheme in Hong Kong would promote professional development and how teachers will react on this change. Ever since the use of voucher system...

This article focuses on the relation of cognitive and language development with bilingual experiences of young children while comparing it with the results of monolingual children. In specific, the researchers selected various children from kindergarten group, divided them in categories of monolinguals, bilinguals, and adopted bilingual immigrants. The research identified no significant difference in the results of different categories in terms of verbal ability however, bilingual children showed...

From the time children are born until adulthood they require to be taken care of since they cannot be able to attend to their own needs. Child care therefore may be regarded as any concern given to children either in form of physical support, material support mostly in form of money, social support and any other responsibility that comes up. Since children are regarded to be gifts from a supernatural being, then every member of the family, not to mention every member of the community, is supposed...

This study examines the relationship between level of sports involvement and academic achievement of ninth grade students in five local high schools using a correlational design. CHAPTER 1 Introduction Sports have been an enduring facet of American life. It is woven into the fabric of the social world of Americans, each community have little leagues, sports and physical education is a basic component of educational curriculums, competitions for various sports abound from the community to the...

In the context of this study, communication is going to be defined as the kind of behavior that occurs as a result of meaning being attributed to a given behavior. If a person looks at our behavior and links it with a given meaning, communication is deemed to have occurred regardless of whether such actions were intended or unintentional. Culture as a term may assume many meanings and as such its definition depends on the context of its application. Culture has always been closely linked with ethnicity...

Presentation and clarification of the problem Historical studies and understanding of past events have shaped the course future political, military strategies and social development. Every culture and country is vastly influenced by its historical past and traditions passed down through generations. The perception of events has a distinctive role to play in shaping societal norms, traditions and cultural practices. Hence the significance of historical understanding is important in grasping the...