For B.Ed. 1st yr Paper Childhood and Growing up of MDU,ROHTAK. IT HIGHLIGHTS THE LATE CHILDHOOD STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

1. Late Childhood
Stage

2. Late childhood stage :- This period start at age of 5 and ends at 12 years of age. It begins with the
entrance to school and ends with the onset of puberty. During this period, many physical, intellectual,
emotional and social changes take place. The environment of the child widens during this period. This
period is made rich by varied experience of things and persons.
Physical development
Intellectual development
Social, Emotional and Moral Development

3. Physical development :- Physical development includes both growth and
the ability to use muscles and body parts for particular skills. Both gross
(large muscle movements) and fine (small movements) motor skills
contribute to physical development, and children often learn a set of skills
by a certain age.
• Height and weight
• Bodily proportions
• Growth and co-ordination of muscles
• Teeth
• Nervous system
• Sense organs and motor organs
• Digestive system
• Sex difference

4. Intellectual development:- Late childhood is the period of intellectual
advancement, where new experience are acquired and applied and
mental horizon is broadened.
•Language development
•Curious question
•Development of power of thinking
•Sensory equipment
•Import of reality into the world of imagination
•Development of concepts
•Development of interests

5. Emotional development :-
• Stability
• Sentiments and complexes

6. Sentiments and complexes:- Different sentiments and complexs
are formed during this stage
Stability:- This is a period of stability and control.
•The child now comes to have a control over his emotions
•His emotional behavior is guided by rational expression
•He gets angry but does not let it exhibited
•He gets frightened but tries to show courage and bravery. He is still
jealous, may be of his younger brother or his bright class-fellows, but
does not cry.
•His expression of joy is expressed by a smile and not by a rollicking
laughter.
•He expresses his affection very modestly and on limited occasion.

7. Social
Development:-
Considerable changes
take place during this
period in social behavior.
The child gradually
becomes less individualist.
He acquires certain social
qualities.
•Group play
•Team games
•Importance of group
•Group adjustment
•Group loyalties
•Group leadership
•Sex difference
•Planning
•Status consciousness

8. Forms of social
behavior :-
The following are
some of the types of
social behavior which
develop as a result of
gang life in the
childhood.
•susceptibility to social
approval
•Suggestibility
•contra-suggestibility
•Rivalry and competition
•Social insight
•Group play
•Sex cleavages

9. Educational implications or significance:
This stage of development is a mirror of the whole life. It reflects past , present and future. What
the child will become can be guessed at this stage
For a proper development of the body
For intellectual development
Emotional security
Social development

10. For proper development of the body:-
a) The teacher should provide well-organized games
for children. He should see that every child takes part in
these games.
b) She should report cases of illness among children to
the headmaster or to respective parents for care.

11. For intellectual development:- The teacher has very important part to play in the
intellectual development of the children.
a) History and arithmetic should be explained to him as they happen to be related
to life.
B) Education through activity and play way method should be encouraged at this
stage. Institutions should try to make arrangement for scouting, girls guide, students,
union debating societies, exhibitions, dramas, plays and games etc. with such a
system of education their physical and mental powers continue to be active.
c) Children should be made to learn abstract concepcts like happiness, honesty
and truth from concrete life situations,

12. Emotional security:-
The atmosphere in the
school be such that it
provides emotional security
to the child. The teacher
should try his best to
sublimate the various
emotions of the children
because emotional shocks
can lead to deformity to the
personality.

13. Social development:-
a) As regard the social development and gang spirit among children the teacher should
try his best to provide a large number of co- curricular activities in the school. Democratic
ways should not be allowed to move in the group of bad persons.
B)) The child at this stage tries to live in a group or gang. Therefor, it should be kept in the
mind that he should not be allowed to move in the group of bad persons.
C) Curriculum should be of such a type that it ishould be of interest to the children and
must be useful for their future life.

14. Conclusion
It is the responsibility of parents and teachers to inculcate qualities
like cooperation, self control, discipline, truthfulness etc among
children.

15. Reference
LEARNER, LEARNING AND COGNITION by Dr. J.S. WALIA

16. Thank You !