Running-Head: Play Therapy Yves Gerald Play Therapy and its Implication in Child Development 2/7/12 Introduction Montaigne, a French classical writer and philosopher of 16th century made this statement: “If you wish to understand your child, you need to understand his play.” In fact, researchers consider play the leading vehicle for learning in childhood. Play is essential to young child’s health (Life-Span Development, p. 27) and has many functions. Theorists, indeed, have focused on different aspects of play and highlighted a long list of functions. According to Freud and Erikson, play helps the child master anxieties and conflicts (Lifespan, p.27). It permits the child to work off excess physical energy and to release unexpressed tensions.
How media influences how a child thinks and acts As a child grows up with the media around, they take it as a source for guidance. From television to advertisements, messages are sent of how they should act. A child’s education and experience of the world is often implicit, and the media emphasizes and affects a child's thoughts of the ideal appearances, gender roles and what is perceived as right from wrong. With children as active participants in the media, watching 24 hours of television (the telegraph) and 7 hours on the computer each week (mail online), the influence is built up from the moment they are a few weeks old (kids health). From the advertisements to the magazines, the female appearance is shown as thin and tall while men are to look muscular and strong.
Influence of Visual Media HUM/176 Influence of Visual Media Since the invention of the television, American culture has been shaped by the influences of visual media. From shows targeted towards children, to reality TV shows like Top Model, the messages portrayed will ultimately become ingrained in the watcher. This in turn shapes everything we do in our daily lives from the foods we eat, clothes we wear, the merchandise we buy, and the way we act and talk. All of this creates the trends that transforms American culture from decade to decade. Childrens shows and movies seem to hold the most influence.
Recently, Nick Jr., originally a television block created in 1988 for a preschool audience, has even grown to the point that it will eclipse an entire other television channel and now run 24/7. This proves, now today more than ever, that the need to educate and enrich the hungry minds of young children is a base necessity that society cannot afford to reproach and disdainfully disregard. Recently, I sat down to watch and observe one such children's television program called “Ni Hao, Kai-Lan.” This type of educational children's show is one of several new shows taking a similar approach to teaching children about other cultures and languages, including Chinese and Spanish. At the onset of the episode, we are introduced to Kai-Lan, a precocious and outgoing 5 year old Chinese-American girl. She goes about her activities in a very fun and inviting manner.
General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform viewers how to critically evaluate television news programming Thesis: What do you watch? Building a rapport for a popular television series consists of building an audience through the use of Language, representation and media literacy. How to Critically Evaluate Television News Programming Introduction By building an understanding and skills in using media and technology, media literacy education may provide a type of protection to children and young people by helping them make good choices in their media consumption habits, and patterns of usage. Media Education is the process of teaching and learning about media. It is about developing young people's critical and creative abilities when it comes to the media.
However, Donald Winnicott and Kendall Walton believe that play is a theory which applies itself to many different areas of life, beginning in the infant years and progressing through adolescence into adult hood. The philosopher Walton focuses on the concept of imagining and ‘the game world.’ To Walton the game world consists of any time you enter into a game or a world of make believe. His focus is primarily on children and infants and the way they explore and make sense of the world through the medium of play. ‘Play in children is a way of understanding and exploring the world.’ (Walton, K. 1990). He believes that if we want to understand art and performance we should look to children for guidance.
Critically review the contribution and influence of psychological theories to early Childhood education and Care curriculum development and childcare practitioner working practices. Throughout this essay I am going to discuss the cognitive development theories of Piaget and Vygotsky. These two theorists were influential in forming a scientific approach to analysing the development process involved in cognition. Cognition is the procedure involved in thinking and mental activity, such as problem solving, memory and attention (Flanagan, 1999, p.72). Both theorists said that a child’s cognitive development took places in stages but the way in which these theorists described the way children go through these stages was completely different.
Examine children’s experiences of family life and why the family is important to them The following essay will examine children’s experiences of family life. I will show my understanding of when childhood began and elaborate on the Aries thesis to examine views of childhood. The sociology of childhood offers a theoretical perspective that interprets children’s experiences of the family and school. I will identify the reasons why family is important to children, furthermore showing how intuitions and social practices influence and shape childhood. The pinnacle point of this essay will be to explore children’s experiences of family life and show what it is like for different types of families such as lone parents and step families.
The Media Influences Adolescents Television has become a favorite American pastime for people of all ages since its invention. According to Laura Fitzpatrick, author of A Brief History of: Television, television first began in 1884 when a German filtered light through a spinning disc with holes, resulting in crude images (Fitzpatrick). From the time of its invention, this media outreach has become more and more popular with the young people. During the years of 1945 and 1948, a boom of TV sales nearly doubled the amount of homes with televisions (Fitzpatrick). This event showed the growing interest of Americans in television broadcasts, but consequently may have triggered some future negative issues for young people.
Let’s take the kids program that can be seen between 6 and 9 o'clock in the morning. Especially young children learn from these programs foreign languages (at least that’s the way in Germany). These are very helpful for their later school life and post school life, were the knowledge of foreign languages helps them to get along in the world. Then we have Documentaries that give us more information about different subjects like nature, mechanics, and new technologies and so on. These documentaries have a great effect on the whole society.