Question

Do you think that this school positively encourages and facilitates biosocial, psychosocial, and cognitive development? If yes, how? What aspects of development are they appealing to in their setup? If no, why not? How is this school inhibiting development? Consider the major developmental theories (psychoanalytic theory, behaviorism, cognitive theory, humanism, cultural theory, information processing, evolutionary theory) in forming your response

Answer 1

ANSWER :

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison". {Victor Hugo}

Yes, it is true that a school is an institution that positively encourages and facilitates biosocial, psychosocial and cognitive developments. There are a number of aspects that they are appealing to in their setup. These aspects of development are as follows:

• A school is an instituion that provides a structured education and enhances a child's physcial, mental, biosocial, and psychological developments. Apart from this some very important aspects are learned in the school, such as importance of rules and regulations in life, discipline, and most importantly the significance of education for development.
• School teaches a vast number of social skills that enhances a child's communication and interaction with other human beings and the environment. School plays an important role in teaching ethics and morals, problem solving skills, decision making abilities which helps in dealing with society and environment and hence improves the cognitive and psychosocial development of a child.
• The role of teachers in the school is not just to impart knowledge but also ensures cognitive development of a child through teaching lessons such as maths, history, science, geography, language and economics. These lessons helps to form a wide world view within a child through which he/she starts to observe the and act accordingly. A teacher acts as a role model for a child and imparts humanism and morals to a young mind.
• The school teaches a child the socially acceptable behaviour, and most importantly positive competition. A school organizes a vast number of activities in the school and ensures proper participation of the students in the same. Through these friendly competitions a child not just learns to compete but also learns to accept both failure nd defeat with immense joy. Through schools, children come to know about different cultures and traditions of the world. Some of their peers belong to different race, culture,ethnicity and nationality. Hence it enhances intercultural comunication of a child.
• School is a platform that imparts social skills such as sharing, friendship, helping one another. To imart these social skills, a school organizes various tours and trips where a child learns to act independent, make decisions for himself/herself, and also learns to adjust with different people and circumstances.
• A school engages a child in a number of activities which are helpful in making them confident human beings. A child first explores his/her talents other than academics in the school itself. He/she inculcates hobbies, forms likes and dislikes, interests, which later helps them to conductively use their leisure time and molds their personality. Schhols gives an oppurtunity to a child to know and interact with different genders and accept them. Freud's psychodynamic theory also suggests the importnace of school in a child's sexual development.

~ There are certain times when school fails to impart some of these aspects due several reaosns. One of the reason is extra stress on curriculum and syllabus. Sometimes, the large area on which a school focuses is acdemics and curriculum. In the hurry to complete the given syllabus, they fail to impart proper understanding as they mainly focus on rote learning. This brings conflicts in the perosonality of a child. Some aspects of the personality remains undeveloped.

Other than that education is becoming a business today, that focuses much on personal profit rather than a child's development.