The Five Stages Of Affective Development

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All human beings have needs, better termed as requirements or necessities which must be fulfilled for us to function properly. These needs can be classified as physical and emotional. Physical needs are the basic needs and when they are not met, a person may eventually die. According to Abraham Maslow, physical needs are the physiological needs and consist of food, water, shelter and clothing. Emotional needs relate to the mental requirement which enables human beings to enjoy a good mental health. The emotional needs of a child focus mainly on love and affection. Catering for these needs will lead to the development of strong emotional intelligence and self-awareness in children. A child should be get unlimited love from his family. He must …show more content…

Affective development refers to development of emotions as well as their outward expression. (Brett, A., Smith, M., Price, E., & Huitt, W, 2003, p 1). The objectives of the affective domain can be arranged in five stages; receiving, responding, valuing, organization and characterization as described by David Krathwohl (1964). School is the institution designed to cater for the cognitive and affective development of learners. As proposed by John Dewey in 1938, the main aim of schooling is to able pupils to live in their actual environment directly and in a sensible and realistic …show more content…

This simply means that no one is born with bad values from the womb of her mother. Man, is born without the knowledge of right and wrong in fact he needs to be taught and eventually make him put this knowledge into practice. The job is philosophers is to reflect on the meaning of thinks and interpret that meaning. Philosophy, the love of wisdom, enables teachers to think about major concepts in education. In technical terms, Meta-ethical theory can be described as the study of ethical definitions, ethical decisions, and ethical applications. This theory deals with answering questions such as what are the sources and foundation of moral values, how do we know what is right and wrong, what is meant by ethnically good, how do moral values influence people’s action and finally does morality differ from person to person, context to context, or culture to