Understand the factors that influence children and young people's development and how these affect practice
Health ID Sante has produced this video on ‘Factors affecting Early Childhood Development’. It looks at how biological and external factors affect child development up to the age of 8.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- The impact of poverty’ from the Child Poverty Action Group.
- ‘The impact of bullying’ from Kidscape
- ‘Puberty’ from the Mentally Healthy Schools website
- 'Supporting children learning English as an additional language’ produced by the department for children, schools and families
- 'The national curriculum' from the UK Government
- Use the internet to research the frameworks for your own home nation.
- Laser reading text: 'Biological and external factors’
- Laser reading text: 'Theoretical perspectives’
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click this icon to watch this End Child Poverty video - watch this short film used by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown to highlight the problem of child poverty in the UK.
- Click to read ‘’Domestic violence and its impact on children’s development’ which is an edited version of a presentation delivered at the Department of Community Services’ Fourth Domestic Violence Forum held at the NSW Parenting Centre.
- The ‘Children’ section of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation provides a number of resources on external impacts on children including poverty.
- ‘The impact of homelessness and bad housing on children’s education’ from Shelter.
- The Department for Education have produced a report on ‘Effective pre-school, primary and secondary education project (EPPSE 3-16+)’ which looks at how pre-school influences children and young people’s attainment and developmental outcomes over time.
- ‘Looked-after children and young people’ from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Read the section on ‘Considerations’
- Click to read this article on ‘Child development theories and examples’ from the Very Well Mind website.
- The Government of Western Australia has produced this ‘Child development and trauma guide’ which looks at some of the external factors influencing development.
- Conduct your own research into the work of modern psychologists Sir Michael Rutter and Colin Blakemore. What do you think of their views? Do you think that ‘nature’ or ‘nurture’ is the most dominant factor in a child’s development? Give examples and use observations to support your views.
- Bandura identified that children are more likely to copy the actions of someone they like and respect. Write a log account, giving three examples of how you have encouraged children to copy your actions.
- Think And Challenge
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