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Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member.

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Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

In Week 1, we discussed the long-standing debate of nature vs. nurture regarding child development. This week focuses on the significant amount of development that takes place in the first 2 years of a child’s life.

Which area of developmental research (e.g., Piaget, Erikson, or Bowlby) do you think leads to the best understanding of infant and toddler development?
How might this information be helpful in an educational setting?

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How does this topic link to the College’s Conceptual Framework and the framework’s philosophical relationship to effective teacher preparation?

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I think that Piaget's sensorimotor substages gives a great explanation of infant and toddler development. Infants and toddlers go through different adaptations which are composed of a series of assimilation and accommodation. During assimilation, the baby will use what is already known to explain the environment, and during this time, the baby is in a state of equilibrium. An example would be a 6 month old dropping an object and watching it fall. During accommodation, the baby will try to invent new ways or modify old ways to explain the world. During this time, a baby is in a state of disequilibrium because it is uncomfortable to try and invent new ways to match their schemes to their surroundings. However, once they figure out new actions to explain their environment, they transition back to assimilation and accommodation. P

I believe that for the best results you would have to fully delve into all three areas of developmental research and get a good grasp on what each of these phycologists have to offer from their works. Each one give a great deal of information and I don't really feel like there is a right answer of which leads to the best understanding of infant and toddler development, but for me I would go with Jean Piaget's way of thinking because it resonates with me the most out of the three.

"Sensorimotor (ages 0 to 2 years of age), is the time when children master two phenomena: causality and object permanence. Infants use their senses and motor abilities to manipulate their surroundings and learn about the environment. They understand a cause-and-effect relationship like shaking a rattle may produce sound and may repeat it or how crying can make the parent(s) rush to give them attention. Soon with frontal lobe maturation and memory development, infants can make mental schemas and can imagine what may happen without physically causing an effect and thus plan out actions better (emergence of thought). Object permanence emerges around six months of age. It is the concept that objects continue to exist even when they are not presently visible."(Fatima Malik; Raman Marwaha, 2021)

My daughter has just turned two years old recently and I also babysit another little girl the same age for a while now and it has been quite a journey watching them grow and learn together watching them full time from almost new born up to now. I can tell you first hand that using their senses to explore and begin learning about everything around them is a key to their growth and development. They want to investigate everything that they can see and get to to find out what it sounds, tastes, smells, and feels like. As stated above I think all three have great information, but Piaget for me will be more helpful in an educational setting because he is getting right to the root of how each child is going to learn and develop during each stage and his works even give you an insight into different techniques for teaching certain ages.

Cognitive development - statpearls - NCBI bookshelf. (n.d.). Retrieved September 9, 2022, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537095/

Each researcher Bowlby, Erikson, and Piaget all bring valuable information to the table when it comes to understanding infant and toddler development. I believe that Eriksons explanation of the different stages of development within infants to toddlers is more on point. His point of trust vs mistrust within an infant is a wonderful way to understand an infants development. Babies have no choice but to rely on those around them to take care of them. When those needs are not met by those around them it can cause developmental milestones to not be met appropriately.

This information would be helpful in an educational setting as to know and understand not every child will be on the same level. Also its important to understand that not all children hit milestones at the same time or the same way. Knowing this when it comes to your students is helpful in knowing how to approach different students depending on where they are in their developmental milestones.

Erikson’s study of individual development would lead to the best understanding of infant and toddler development. Understanding the stages of development along with the milestones that will aid a child’s development, allows us to track the milestones that infants and toddlers will benefit from and provide a developmental path that the child can be guided along to help them develop into a healthy individual and successful adult. The psychosocial theory also provides a life-long model of development that is useful in understanding the development of an infant or toddler because the milestones can be connected in a continuous thread with each marker connecting the next. By understanding this progression, we can help set a child’s development on the right path the achieve the goals of their current stage, while preparing for the goals and potential crises of the next stages. In an educational setting, this provides teachers with concrete goals for their students to reach. Even if the developmental goals are not immediate curriculum goals, allowing the children to grow in a healthy environment where they are meeting important developmental milestones will have them be more successful in their educational pursuits as they will be more mature and accomplished individuals.

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I think that Piaget's theory of cognitive development in my opinion is the best in understanding of infant and toddlers development. Piaget's theory has 4 stages and involves changes in cognitive processes and abilities. His 4 stages are the, Sensorimotor Stage, The Preoperational stage, The Concrete operational stage, and The Formal operational stage. The first 2 years of a child's life shows the development of sensory experiences and manipulating objects. By understanding Piaget's Theory it can really be helpful in an educational career, being able to understand the basic cognitive processes a child goes through. Understanding from an educational background how the foundations are laid for small children which then can be built on as they get older in school. Building more complex skills and cognitive processes than a student can adjust to and learn from. Teachers with this understanding know how to build on complex stimulations that build and advance their thinking. Piaget's Theory has helped influence student centered learning, formative assessments, and peer interactions. These are critical in a students progress emotionally and mentally.

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I personally think that Piaget's theory of cognitive development leads to the best understanding of infants & toddler development. He has a total of four stages, however the cognitive development of infants and toddlers are only discussed in the first two stages. For example, during the sensorimotor stage, infants become aware of what's right in front of them through the use of their senses. Sight and sound is especially critically , as it helps them to physically interact with their environment. In a educational setting this allows a student to do more hands on activities. For example, during music and movement, they can grab instruments and interact with them. They will then begin to make the connection by realizing that if they want to hear a sound, then they must shake the object, or instrument. This eventually creates goal oriented behavior leading to a desired result. Near the end of this stage infants are able to develop symbolic abilities which includes early language development. This leads us to the preoperational stage. During this stage they become more familiar with words and develop memory. This explains why many toddlers recognize different nursery rhymes. This is particularly helpful in an educational setting because the students are able to engage. For instance, most toddlers will be able to follow along with the "If your happy and you know it" song. After repeatedly listening to this song during their early childhood stage, they are able to use their memory to follow along and mimic sounds. They are also able to look at you, repeat and follow along.

Reference: Ansorge, Rick (2020). Piaget Stages of Development. https://www.webmd.com/children/piaget-stages-of-development

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