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- Title
PROMOTING PERSONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN: OF WHAT GOOD IS IT TO GRADUATE THE MIND BUT TO LOSE THE PERSON?
- Authors
LeCapitaine, Dr. John
- Abstract
Personal and psychological development is the raison de etre of education. Consequently, we must examine the ethnographic, economic, cultural, and other contextual experiences, with which the child is absorbed, if not, held hostage. Unabashedly, all of these constructs need to be addressed by our communities, and, now. and, substantively, well. The purpose of this article is to implore readers to address personal and psychological development, and to provide requisite stage theory and foundations for such stage transformations, the sine qua non of development and maturity. The specific, critical developmental theories to be addressed include emotional development, moral/ethical development, ego-identity development, and perspective-taking development. Personal and psychological development need not be entre deux guerres with academics. Optimally, school counselors and psychologists must move out of their offices and into the classrooms, modeling for teachers, and, facilitating with teachers, personal and psychological maturity, for everyone, through developmental curricula and principles, eventually, leading to its assimilation, by teachers, in a seamless process of education.
- Subjects
EDUCATIONAL psychology; DEVELOPMENTAL psychology; MATURATION (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY of students
- Publication
Education, 2001, Vol 121, Issue 3, p459
- ISSN
0013-1172
- Publication type
Article