Lecture Human development - Family, place, culture - Chapter 2: Development in families

Chapter 2 Development in families . Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 2-1 The family: a complex, constructed ecology • The family is nested within a complex set of political, social, historical and cultural settings • The family is an important repository of resources for learning – A family has its own stories, meanings, preoccupations • Relationships within the family are multi-dimensional • Family relationships change over time • Families are broader than the nuclear “ideal” . Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 2-2 The influential ecology of the family • The family sets in place patterns of relationship and learning that will influence how we go on, sometimes through our entire lives • Culture lives through family • Meanings are presented and developed within and through family life • Familiar or habitual ways of behaving, including emoting, relating and interacting, are usually established first in the family . Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 2-3 Dominating ideas about family • There are many powerful beliefs about what is right in family life • These ideas vary from culture to culture, and moment to moment in history • If people think that their ideas reflect the ‘natural’ order, they will try very hard to maintain that order • Developmental psychologists advise on what is ‘normal’ in family life . Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 2-4 Family as committed relationship • Genetic relationship – Your biological parents will always be your biological relatives • A place of nurture – What counts as nurture is a focus of study in human development • Sharing economic livelihood – Different cultures have different approaches to shared livelihood • Families are held together by emotional ties – In some cultures (but not all), love is the foundation of the family, and holds it together . Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Claiborne & Drewery, Human Development 2-5 ... - tailieumienphi.vn