Children Education - Assignment Example

Question1During their middle childhood, children manage their emotions by shifting between two strategies. They alternate between problem-centered coping and emotion-centered coping. In problem-centered coping, they see conditions as alterable and find ways of solving them whereas they devise measures of accepting unchangeable situations through emotion-centered coping.  Question2Marla believes that her classmate Bernadette is lazy and does not believe that this personality is changeable and therefore judges her.

Additionally she has limited information and ignores the fact that there could be other circumstances and hence she is more likely than Jane to develop prejudices. Jane at least tries to relate Bernadette’s academics to the trauma brought about by her divorcing parents. Question3The book gives an example of Joey, an older child, who keeps a stray kitten despite having been cautioned by her mother not to. She does this because of her enhanced perspective taking and emotional understanding.

She believes that the kitten might end up dying if she does not keep it and hence empathizes. By being able to take more information, children’s moral understanding is developed. For instance, a child may pretend to be sick only to avoid participating in a singing competition because he or she is a bad singer. However, this is done with the best of intentions because he/she does not want to be the one to hinder the team’s chances of winning the competition. Question4I attended an integrated elementary school, and it is from the school that I noted how vital integration is in reducing ethnic and racial prejudice.