Elementary different aspects of emotional development with special reference to school students
Course: Human Development & Learning
Course code 8610
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment
ANSWER
ASPECTS OF SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
There are some core dimensions of emotional
development for instance caring environment, knowledge and regulation of
emotions, social understanding, relationship management, and social
responsibility. These dimensions are discussed in the following section:
i. Caring environment
Developing kind, trusting,
relationships with responsive caregivers in early childhood settings are
essential. These relationships provide the child with an internal working model
of positive social relationships (Denham & Weissberg, 2004).
ii.
Emotional knowledge and emotional regulation
The ability to identify emotions
in oneself and others and to delay reactions to emotions while directing these
feelings into socially acceptable behaviors is central to social competency.
In the early stages of social-emotional
development infants and toddlers experience emotions and react to them on an
affective level. With the beginning of language and other cognitive skills,
such as attention maintenance, and reasoning, children can respond to
the emotional stimulation by using their new cognitive skills to think in
advance and create alternate plans for action.
The act of labeling an emotion
helps to move it to the language/cognitive part of the brain. This creates a space
between feeling and action which ultimately helps children to process feelings
in a matter that is more cognitive than reactive. (Greenberg, Kusch, &
Mihalic, 1998).
Children at a very early age are capable of
recognizing basic emotions particularly happy and sad; however, they often
confuse anger with fear. Between ages four to seven children begin to understand
more complex dimensions of emotions. For instance, they can recognize that
people may experience diverse emotions, or that different people can feel
differently about the same event (Denham & Weissberg, 2004).
iii. Social Understanding
Generally around age four
children begin to understand that others have internal worlds where they keep
feelings and thoughts and that certain events/actions are causes for certain
emotional reactions. This major developmental stage allows for perspective[1]taking – the ability
"to be in someone else's shoes" which leads to the ability to
empathize.
iv.
Relationship management
The knowledge of social norms
influences the interaction between children. For example, it helps a child how
to express emotions effectively or to respond to problems. v. Social
responsibility Knowing about emotions is not enough. The goal of social-emotional education is to enable children to be internally motivated to act
kindly and to develop a system of ethical values directed toward feeling for
others.
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