Abstract
This chapter describes a developmental approach to discipline. Observations of children's behavior under varied conditions have been made for a very long time. Genetic factors do play a part in influencing the emotional development of children, and clearly physical attributes, intellectual level, and emotional tendencies will all be relevant to the pattern of social development, and environment does play a major part in influencing both emotional and social development. It is important that teachers cultivate in their classrooms an atmosphere appropriate to the needs of the individual pupils, both as regards stimulation of intellectual curiosity, and emotional and social development. By the time children arrive at school for the first time, wide differences are already apparent in their general development. An appreciation of the wide range of possible lines of development in different communities is a worthwhile study for the student in training, showing, as it does, the very wide differences in pattern of development during childhood, which are possible with different types of stimulation from environmental sources.
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