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Stephen Phua
Aug 30, 20218 min read
Moral Development is also in stages and cannot be fragmented according to Lawrence Kohlberg
Jean Piaget introduced the idea of how moral development occurs in stages, each level built on life experiences and active reasoning....
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Stephen Phua
Aug 24, 202110 min read
Vygotsky's challenges to Piaget's cognitive development theory
Lev Vygotsky (1934) stresses the fundamental role of social interaction in the development of cognition and he believed strongly that...
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Stephen Phua
Aug 20, 20213 min read
Can your child transmit COVID-19 to your family?
Kids are getting COVID, and with the highly infectious Delta variant still surging in the US, there are a lot of concern about outbreaks...
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Stephen Phua
Aug 19, 20219 min read
Cognitive Development of your child - what you should know?
Jean Piaget in 1936 provided a theory of cognitive development that explains that intelligence in a child is not inferior to that of an...
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Stephen Phua
Jun 4, 20215 min read
Preschool development conflict (age 3-6) - initiative vs Guilt Stage
In the previous blogs, we covered Erikson's concept of resolving 2 conflicting ideas in each of his 8 lifelong development stages, the...
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Stephen Phua
May 30, 20215 min read
Erikson's Toddler Age (1-3 years) - Autonomy vs Shame & Doubt
In my last post, we discussed Erikson's infancy stage. Here, we want to discuss the child reaching a stage of development where he or she...
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Stephen Phua
May 28, 20217 min read
The Biblical Perspective of early childhood development - Erikson's infancy stage (Age 0-1) intimacy
Erik Erikson (1902–1994) was a stage theorist who took Freud’s controversial psychosexual theory and modified it into an eight-stage...
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Stephen Phua
May 27, 20218 min read
Does IB PYP make a difference in preparing preschoolers in Singapore for primary school?
BRMCC Little Lights was authorised to be a IB PYB World School on 1 Aug 2019 There was an interesting study done by the Department of...
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Stephen Phua
May 27, 20212 min read
Long term effects of preschool education
High-quality early childhood education is increasingly viewed as an important and effective intervention to address early-life deficits....
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Stephen Phua
May 16, 20212 min read
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACS) and long term health effects
Childhood adversity is a common societal problem that increases the risk for mental and physical health problems in one’s life. ACES are...
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