CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The five developmental domains defined as essential to school readiness include approaches to play and learning, emotional and social development, health and physical development, language and communication, and cognitive development.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social and emotional development in early childhood can be subdivided into subdomains to guide the review and selection of measures. Based upon our review of the literature, the following four subdomains were identified: (1) social competence; (2) emotional competence; (3) behavior problems; and (4) self-regulation.

Detailed explanation-3: -All domains of child development-physical development, cognitive development, social and emotional development, and linguistic development (including bilingual or multilingual development), as well as approaches to learning-are important; each domain both supports and is supported by the others.

Detailed explanation-4: -The social-emotional development domain consists of the following three strands: Self, which includes self-awareness and self-regulation, social and emotional understanding, empathy and caring, and initiative in learning.