1. Social Context and Socioemotional Development Pertemuan 6
Matakuliah : E Psikologi Pendidikan
Tahun : 2010
Social Context and Socioemotional Development Pertemuan 6

2. Social Context of Development
In Bronfenbrenner’s theory, the social contexts in which children live are important influences on their development.
Three of the context in which children spend much of their time :
Family
Peer
School
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3. Social Context of Development; Family
Parenting style,
Authoritarian parenting; A restrictive and punitive parenting style in which there is little verbal exchange between parents and children; associated with children’s social incompetence
Authoritative parenting; A positive parenting style that encourages children to be independent but still places limits and controls on their action; extensive verbal give-and-take is allowed; associated with children’s social compentence.
Neglectful parenting; A parenting style of uninvolvement in which parents spend little time with their children; associated with children’s social incompetence.
Indulgent parenting; A parenting style of involvement but few limits or restrictions on children’s behavior; linked with children’s social incompetence
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4. Social Context of Development; Family
The changing family in a changing society,
Children of divorce; the effects of divorce on children are complex, depending on such factors as the child’s age, the child’s strengths and weaknesses at the time of the divorce, the type of custody, socioeconomic status, and postdivorce family functioning.
Maggie is a 10 year-old fifth grader who had been a happy child and had done well in school, but all of that changed when her parents recently separated. Her father moved out and Maggie’s mother became depressed. Maggie began to not show up for school. Now although she is at school regularly, she has trouble concentrating on her schoolwork.
Ethnic and socioeconomic variations in families
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5. Social Context of Development; Family
School –Family linkages,
Family management; research have found that family management practices are positively related to students’ grades and self responsibility, and negatively to school related problem.
Parental involvement and school-family-community connections; in one survey , teacher listed parental involvement as the number one priority in improving education
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6. Social Context of Development; Family
Out-of-school care,
In addition to actively participating in their children’s schooling, children benefit when parent arrange and monitor out of school care.
The increase in single-parent families and families in which both parents work outside the home has made out of school child care a more important aspect of children’s development
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7. Social Context of Development; Peer
Peer statuses,
Five types of peer statuses;
Popular children
Average children
Neglected children
Rejected children
Controversial children
Friendship,
The benefit of friendship;
- companionship,
- phisical support,
- ego support,
- intimacy/affection
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8. Social Context of Development; Peer
Developmental changes in peer relations
During the elementary school years, children’s peer groups increasingly consist of same-sex peers
in adolescence, participation in mixed-sex groups increases. Also in adolescence, many students become members of crowds, and allegiace to the crowd can exert a powerful influence over their lives.
group identity with the crowd can override the adolescent’s personal identity.
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9. Social Context of Development; School
In school, children spend many years as member of small society that exert a tremendous influence on their socioemotional development
School’s changing social developmental contexts,
social context vary through the early childhood, elementary school, and adolescent years
Early childhood education,
Developmentally appropriate education
Controversy in early childhood education
Early childhood education for children from low-income families
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10. Social Context of Development; School
The transition to elementary school
As children make teh transition to elementary school, they interact and develop relationships with new and significant others.
The schooling of Adolescents
The transition to middle or junior high school
Effective school for young adolescents
Improving high school
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11. Socioemotional Development
The self
Morel Development
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12. Socioemotional Development; The self
Self esteem
Also called self-image and self-worth, the individual’s overall conception of himself or herself.
Identity development
Identity statuses
Identity diffusion
Identity foreclosure
Identity moratorium
Ethnic identity
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13. Socioemotional Development; Moral Development
Domain of moral development
Cognitive, behavioral, and emotional
Piaget’s theory
Heteronomous morality
Autonomous morality
Kohlberg’s theory
Preconventional reasoning
Conventional reasoning
Postconventional reasoning
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14. Socioemotional Development; Moral Development
Moral personality
Moral identity
Moral character
Moral exemplars
Moral education
The hidden curriculum
Character education
Values clarification
Cognitive moral education
Service learning;
a form of aducation that promotes social responsibility and service to the community
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