Chapter-1-The-Child-and-Adolescent-Learners.pdf

The child and adolescent learning principles

1. EED 1112: Child and Adolescent Development
CHILD AND
ADOLESCENT
DEVELOPMENT

2. EED 1112: Child and Adolescent Development
Chapter 1
The Child and
Adolescent
Learners

3. Childhood and Adolescence
•Childhood is the state or time of being a child;
especially the period from infancy to puberty. It is the
time for innocence, free from responsibility but
vulnerable to outside forces.
•The Convention of the Rights of the Child defines a
child as “every human being below the age of 18
years unless under the law applicable to the child,
majority is attained earlier”.

4. Childhood and Adolescence
▪Adolescence is the transitional period of
psychological and social human development
following the onset of puberty during which a young
person develops from a child into an adult (ages 13—19
years old).
▪It represents a complex and sometimes disturbing
psychological transition, accompanying the requirement
for the accepted social behavior of the particular adult
and culture.

5. The Rights of Children and Young
Persons

6. The Rights of Children and Young
Persons