For B.Ed. 1st yr Paper Childhood and Growing up of MDU,ROHTAK. IT HIGHLIGHTS THE ADOLESCENT STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

1. Adolescence
Development
Stages

2. Meaning of Adolescence
Adolescence is the most important and critical period of
individual’s development with which the teacher has to deal. It
refers to the period of development and adjustments during the
transitional period between childhood and adulthood. This
period emerges from childhood and merged to adulthood. From
the onset of puberty to the age of maturity ( generally from 13
to 19 years) .

3. Stages of Development
• Physical Development
• Emotional Development
• Social Development
• Cognitive or Intellectual Development

4. Physical Developments
• Increase in height and weight
• Rapid development of bones and muscles
• Changes in bodily Proportions
• Change in voice
• Changes in Motor Performance
• Increase size of Genital Organs
• Breast Development and Growth of Pelvis
• Night emission and menstruation
• Hair Growth
• Increase in Blood Pressure
• Increase in heart and pulse rate
• Physiological systems

5. Emotional Development
• Heightening of emotions
• Variations in emotional moods
• Not under control
• Complexity
• Development of inferiority complex
• Sexual frustration
• Day dreaming and fantasy
• Development of abstract emotions
• Realism in emotional experiences
• Capacity of sharing emotions
• Widened loyalties
• Increased compassion
• Common emotional patterns

6. • Widened loyalties
• Increased compassion
• Common emotional patterns
⮚ Emotion of love
❖ Auto-eroticism(self-love)
❖ Homo-sexuality
❖ Hetero-sexuality
⮚ Emotion of anger
⮚ Emotion of worry
⮚ Emotion of jealousy

7. Social Development
• Sex consciousness
• Social consciousness
• Group loyalty
• Social service

8. Cognitive/Intellectual Development
• Development of intelligence
• Increase span of attention
• Development of memory
• Development of understanding
• Development of abstract thinking
• Development of generalisation
• Development of problem solving ability
• Ability to make decisions
• Development of imaginations
• Hero-worship
• Widening of interests
⮚ Recreational interests
⮚ Social interests
⮚ Personal interests

9. • Development of imaginations
• Hero-worship
• Widening of interests
⮚ Recreational interests
⮚ Social interests
⮚ Personal interests
⮚ Vocational interests
⮚ Religious interests
⮚ Interest in sexual matters

10. Conclusion
Adolescent youth experience the monumental changes in every
single aspect of their lives as they make transition from childhood to adulthood.
Youth enter this developmental stages with the body and mind of a child and
then exit 9 to 10 years later, with the mind of an adult. The purpose of this
presentation is to provide the foundational information needed to recognise
and appreciate the normal developmental progression of adolescents.

11. REFERENCE
Learner, learning and Cognition
by Dr. J.S Walia

12. Thankyou
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