Psychology Week 8: Whowell

This week's assigned reading was Chapter 13, putting it all together. This week the chapter covered making lifespan development all about you, putting it in to practice. Lifespan development can be applied to every day life, like passing a homeless man. I thought this example tied it together really well for me. Some people might engage with the homeless man, while other's might avoid eye contact. The chapter refers to Maslow's hierarchy of needs  how people are challenged to self-actualized when basic needs aren't met. The book defines stakeholders as individuals who are affected by actions of a larger group or organization. Within the field of lifespan development invovles stakeholders of all ages and levels of power within our soical framework.
According to the chapter, some of the current issues that we face is with teachers. It talks about teacher "teaching to the tests." This is about teachers trying to ensure children hit different marks or test levels versus focusing on each children actual growth and learning. Which leads to the discussion on poverty being the issue, not poor teaching. 
I think this course has taught me a lot over the last eight weeks. It has been so interesting to see the different stages of development in my own personal life. I can see personal examples of each theory and each stage in the lives of those around me and throughout my own life. This book did a great job of marking that passage through life and identifying each stage in a way that was relateable.

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