Brain
Part of neuron that sends electrical signals from the cell body; send info OUT from cell body
Axon
One-room public school serving individuals from all social classes.
Common School
Kohlberg's Thoery of Moral Development has how many stages
6
skills involving large muscles of the body
Include:Walking, Running, Jumping, Balancing, Coordination
Gross Motor Skills
During this stage of play, children will often play alone, with toys different from those of others, and be uninterested or unaware of what others around them are doing.
Solitary Play
Very narrow gap between neurons where two neurons exchange a signal between one’s axon and the other’s dendrite
synapse
One of first women doctors in Italy. opened her first school, "Casa Dei Bambini," after being given the opportunity to help underprivileged children in San Lorenzo.
Maria Montessori
This stage of Erikson's Psychosocial development occurs in early adulthood when we are attempting to form lasting relationships
Intimacy v Isolation
the construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making
Cognitive Development
This occurs when children play side-by-side from one another, but there is a lack of group involvement amongst them. They will typically be playing with similar toys and often times mimic one another.
Parallel Play
mass made entirely out of nervous tissue
Controls the flow of messages between the brain and the rest of the body
Brain Stem
Known as the father of the common school -
Instrumental in public education reform
Advocated statewide curriculum, financing schools by property tax
Horace Mann
Stresses conscious mental processes
Cognitive processes are influenced by
biological maturation
Four stages of cognitive development
Piaget's Thoery of Cognitive Development
Process by which a child learns to interact with others around him/her
Social Development
when a child observes others playing but does not join the play. They will frequently engage in other forms of social interactions such as conversations to learn more about the game or play that is going on.
Onlooker Play
process visual info from eyes
makes sense of visual information so that we are able to understand it
Occipital Lobe
Teacher training college, primarily to train elementary teachers for common schools.
Normal School
Process by which pre-existing knowledge is altered in order to fit new info
New schema may be created in this process
Happens when existing knowledge is not accurate
Accommodation
the ability to recognize, express, and manage feelings at different stages of life and to have empathy for the feelings of others
Emotional Development
At this stage, children will begin to play together, but not focused towards a common goal. A child will be more interested in playing with other children around them than the individual toys they play with.
Associative Play
Lobe responsible for problem solving,
short-term memory, language, judgement, impulse control, and social behavior
Frontal Lobe
opened the first formal kindergarten in America in 1860, based on the work of Frederick Froebel in Germany.
Elizabeth Peabody
Stage of PIaget's thoery when a child can:
Think abstractly & reason about
hypothetical problems
Think more about moral, philosophical,
ethical, social, & political iss
Formal Operational
4 domains each child develops in at the same time
Social, Emotional, Cognitive, Physical
where play finally becomes organized into groups and teamwork is seen. Children are now interested in both the people that they are playing with as well as the activity at hand. The group is more formalized with a leader, as well as other assigned roles, and play organizes around accomplishing group goals or specific tasks
Cooperative Play