Early Childhood Observation: Preschool
Santo C. (Fictitious name)
Male
4 years 9 months old 45Lbs
Observation dates: May 02, 2013 09:00am to 11:00am May 08, 2013 11:00am to 12:30am
Observation place: Preschool
During my observation, there were always nine children between four and 5 years old and two more adults in the same group.
Santo is an enthusiastic and active boy who according to his parents loves to go to preschool. He loves music time and outdoor play.
I observed him twice, during two different days and times and during different activities.
Santo goes to the bathroom all by himself, without any reminders but always comes out asking the teachers to help him button his pants.
Santo works and play alongside with others but only acknowledges …show more content…
I believe Santo is in the Preoperational Stage with an Egocentrism limitation. Piaget defined his second stage by what it lacks: operations for Piaget, the term operations have a very particular meaning. Operations are mental actions that follow systematic, logical rules. When children are preoperational, they do not think in a logical way. According to Piaget, the major accomplishment of the preoperational stage is the ability to represent actions mentally rather than physically. Piaget also placed considerable emphasis on the limitations of children is thought at this age. Preoperational children may base their conclusions on a set of unrelated facts, or they may assume that things that just happen to occur at about the same time cause each other. For example, an angry child might accuse an innocent bystander of doing him harm by reasoning, “You were there when I fell, so it’s your fault that I hurt myself.” Magical explanations may be the best that children can do to understand the world, but this may lead to tricky situations when dealing with children who are convinced of the reality of their thoughts. Egocentrism. Piaget believed that young children find it difficult to see the world from another person’s point of view, especially if …show more content…
Also, whereas younger children use only the basic forms of words, such as I go store, preschoolers begin to add morphemes. We define morpheme as the smallest unit that has meaning in a language. As the preschooler learns how to use morphemes more appropriately, she no longer says “I walk home” but rather “I walked home” when she means past tense. Laura Levine & Joyce Munsch. Child Development. An active Learning Approach 2011. Page 312. Language Development of Preschoolers
I also believe Santo is on the egocentric speech. Egocentric Speech, A limitation of youg children’s communication due to their inability to take the perspective of other people into account. For Piaget, the explanation for egocentric speech is that children are not born with social beings ; they must learn to be social and to understand other people’s point of view. When they do, their language becomes socialized, and communication is much more effective. Laura Levine & Joyce Munsch. Child Development. An active Learning Approach 2011. Page 314
I also believe some of Santo’s behavior and development could be in some part of cultural based beliefs. I know for a fact that the culture from where Santo comes from, is used to help children to eat (they still spoon feed them until an older age than what the American culture is used to, they also help them get dress, independency is not encourage the way parents to in the American
Male
4 years 9 months old 45Lbs
Observation dates: May 02, 2013 09:00am to 11:00am May 08, 2013 11:00am to 12:30am
Observation place: Preschool
During my observation, there were always nine children between four and 5 years old and two more adults in the same group.
Santo is an enthusiastic and active boy who according to his parents loves to go to preschool. He loves music time and outdoor play.
I observed him twice, during two different days and times and during different activities.
Santo goes to the bathroom all by himself, without any reminders but always comes out asking the teachers to help him button his pants.
Santo works and play alongside with others but only acknowledges …show more content…
I believe Santo is in the Preoperational Stage with an Egocentrism limitation. Piaget defined his second stage by what it lacks: operations for Piaget, the term operations have a very particular meaning. Operations are mental actions that follow systematic, logical rules. When children are preoperational, they do not think in a logical way. According to Piaget, the major accomplishment of the preoperational stage is the ability to represent actions mentally rather than physically. Piaget also placed considerable emphasis on the limitations of children is thought at this age. Preoperational children may base their conclusions on a set of unrelated facts, or they may assume that things that just happen to occur at about the same time cause each other. For example, an angry child might accuse an innocent bystander of doing him harm by reasoning, “You were there when I fell, so it’s your fault that I hurt myself.” Magical explanations may be the best that children can do to understand the world, but this may lead to tricky situations when dealing with children who are convinced of the reality of their thoughts. Egocentrism. Piaget believed that young children find it difficult to see the world from another person’s point of view, especially if …show more content…
Also, whereas younger children use only the basic forms of words, such as I go store, preschoolers begin to add morphemes. We define morpheme as the smallest unit that has meaning in a language. As the preschooler learns how to use morphemes more appropriately, she no longer says “I walk home” but rather “I walked home” when she means past tense. Laura Levine & Joyce Munsch. Child Development. An active Learning Approach 2011. Page 312. Language Development of Preschoolers
I also believe Santo is on the egocentric speech. Egocentric Speech, A limitation of youg children’s communication due to their inability to take the perspective of other people into account. For Piaget, the explanation for egocentric speech is that children are not born with social beings ; they must learn to be social and to understand other people’s point of view. When they do, their language becomes socialized, and communication is much more effective. Laura Levine & Joyce Munsch. Child Development. An active Learning Approach 2011. Page 314
I also believe some of Santo’s behavior and development could be in some part of cultural based beliefs. I know for a fact that the culture from where Santo comes from, is used to help children to eat (they still spoon feed them until an older age than what the American culture is used to, they also help them get dress, independency is not encourage the way parents to in the American