Name: John Carlo A.
Lapas
State five characteristics of human development from a life-span perspective and their implications to child care, education and
parenting.
Characteristics of human
development from a life-span
perspective
1. Development is lifelong
2. Development is plastic
3. Development is multidimensional
4. Development is contextual
5. Development involves growth,
maintenance and regulation
Course& Year& Section: BTVTED_1-11B
Education Implication to Child Care,
Education and Parenting
This characteristics of life-span
perspective implies that development
occurs even until our last breath. In child-
care, an individual in its childhood is
mostly a curious one, this curiosity is
brought until its education starts. As
children grow, their education leads them
to development, even until they are in
parenthood. Development occurs as long
as a person lives.
This characteristic of life-span
perspective implies change occurs in
development. In child-care children
undergo drastic changes, and of course
that includes their needs. Those needs
must be provided for a child's welfare. In
education, learning means being
subjected to change. However, small the
change is development takes place, so
regardless of age, changes through
development occurs. With that said,
education should not be discriminating. In
parenting, improvement due to any
deliberate effort to help parents be more
effective in caring for children is
development. As the child grows, one's
parenting style should develop and match
with the child’s needs.
This characteristic of life-span
perspective implies the development is
established in the processes of physical,
mental, and social-emotional aspects of a
person. In child-care to promote
children’s physical development, external
forces should be done such as provision
of healthy foods to eat and inauguration
of exercises.
This characteristic of life-span
perspective implies the development a
perspective views the essential process
of human development as being
composed of changing, reciprocal
relations between individuals and the
multiple contexts within which they live.
This characteristic of life-span
perspective implies the development a
perspective views Growth, maintenance
and regulation are three (3) goals of
human development. The goals of
individuals vary among developmental
stages. For instance, as individuals reach
middle and late adulthood, concern with
growth gets into the back stage while
maintenance and regulation take the
center stage.