GDECE102-Theoretical Perspective on Child Development – Arts & Humanities Assignment Help

Assessment 1: Position Paper
Identify a specific developmental domain and critically reflect on the relationship between theory and pedagogy. 

Details of task:
Your position will be based on relevant empirical evidence and personal experience. You need to specify a developmental domain (e.g., cognitive development, emotional development) and theoretical perspective and reflect on your teaching practice with young children. 

Criteria:

• Introduction (sets up your argument and tells the reader what to expect) 
• Discuss aspects of a developmental domain. Refer to relevant literature you can talk about the relationships of all the domains, but you need to focus on only one 
• Discuss theoretical perspective(s) on child development. Draw attention to the theories and concepts that relevant to the developmental domain you chose for the analysis (e.g., you may compare two main theories and what is their strengths and limitation) 
• Discuss the relationship between theoretical perspective and teaching pedagogy (e.g., how the theories of child development have informed teaching and pedagogical decision?) 
• Reflect upon your teaching philosophy, pedagogy, and personal experience. (Some statement about what you have learned about contemporary theories of child development) 
• Conclusion. (Your conclusion should give a sense of closure and completion to your argument, but also show what new questions or possibilities it has opened up.) 
• Academic English expression and referencing – APA 7 style. 
• Minimum 5-7 references