Question- Explain social development during childhood.

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Social Development During Childhood

Most children go to school when they attain to childhood. Hence, the social development of this period is particularly influenced by the atmosphere in school and playground. It is a part of the teacher’s job to provide by creating such an atmosphere in the classroom, school and playground in which healthy social development of the child may take place. Games have a special significance for the child’s social development during this period of his life. Teachers should organise such games that provide satisfaction to the child’s social needs, and the needs of his social development. And, in this, it is desirable if individual differences between children are also kept in mind. As a general rule, the child’s social behaviour is not fixed or properly patterned by the age of six, it being influenced by such factors as his social consciousness, the ability to mould himself according to the rules in force in school, physical experience and mental development etc. The moment a child enters the portals of his school, he faces new problems of social adjustment.

Between the age of 6 and 12 the child begins adjusting rapidly to his changing and varying social world. Now he is usually a member of one or the other group, which exhibits a code language, places of meeting a leader, special purpose of various activities, etc. The members of the group evince a definite loyalty to the group, do not hesitate to obey the orders of the leader and to emulate him and experience considerable freedom and independence. These same groups later on, in adult life, manifest themselves in the form of committees and societies. In this age, boy and girls form their groups among members of their own sexes, because of a definite and clear differentiation between their habits, interests, desires, etc.

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