Lecture Human development - Family, place, culture - Chapter 1: What is human development?
Lecture Human development - Family, place, culture - Chapter 1: What is human development?
Human development can be defined as a process of progressive changes in people’s lives over time that enables them to adapt more effectively to their environments. This chapter sets the scene by looking at the ways that humans started to consider life in terms of its unfolding over time as the journey from infancy to maturity, ignorance to understanding, simplicity to sophistication. This way of looking at the world has a long history in human societies, yet historically the idea that each perso