Week 8. Montante. Ch. 13. Putting it Altogether





Week 8. Montante. Ch. 13. Putting it all together.

“You have the power to choose to live your life in ways that reflect a set of values and expectations and that carry consequences for yourself and for the communities you live in.” Chapter 8 reflects how everything about lifespan development is about us. Every theory that we have read about or had strong opinions about cannot always explain all the aspect of development, but they do give the ideas that give us our own opinions about them and how we each view them in different viewpoints.

This course has helped me learn so much about the development of a human life. From conception all the way to old age. It has helped me notice more about everyone’s own personal development. We all do it differently and have our own way of learning. Each chapter has had me open up my mind more into each type of development we see and what we may not understand about it. Public figures like the Dalai Lama have suggested that we need to open our eyes to the ways in which we must act for the benefit of others. We all have so much to contribute to and we are the stakeholders of our outcome.

Right now I am in the early adulthood and related to majority of each chapter because I do have a little one going through her own development. Which to me is interesting to understand since I am the person viewing it while also going through my own development as well.

I believe by noticing a person development it will help us understand our society as a whole. By knowing information like this parents can help better their children and the role they play as part of their life. As they get older, they can see the changes they will go through and as they go into early adulthood they can reflect how their development has impacted their life and in what way. That is how I view it to be. However, we each still have our own viewpoints on development. I know as a human, mother, and future educator the role I play for some ones development.

As I look back to this course, I can say that it has change my own understanding of development. I learn to look more deeply into it rather than viewing the outside layer of it. I can apply some of the theories to my life and my daughter’s life and see the changes it can have or not.

Aside from the readings, the videos also played a huge part of learning about development. I felt that the readings were great to read about the information, but viewing it through a video I felt helped our learning as well. We each learn differently and with having access with those videos as well did help me expand more to view the development opposed to reading it.

  

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