Super & Harkness: Developmental Niche Framework PDF
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This document discusses the Super & Harkness: Developmental Niche Framework, which examines how culture influences child development. It highlights how children's environment is part of a cultural system and how biological factors also affect their development. It also discusses interacting subsystems: physical and social settings, customs and practices of child rearing, and psychology of caregivers.
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Super & Harkness: Developmental Niche Framework How culture shapes child development PRINCIPLES 1. Child’s environment is organized as part of a cultural meaning system or cultural community Development is part of the culture Ex: “children should be seen and not heard” = respect of elders/authority...
Super & Harkness: Developmental Niche Framework How culture shapes child development PRINCIPLES 1. Child’s environment is organized as part of a cultural meaning system or cultural community Development is part of the culture Ex: “children should be seen and not heard” = respect of elders/authority 2. Child’s biological disposition affects their process of development 3 INTERACTING SUBSYSTEMS 1. Physical and social settings Physical: school Social settings: interactions with others 2. Customs and practices of child rearing Sleeping arrangements Discipline 3. Psychology of the caregivers Adaptations of the culture through the parents Child learns through social learning
