Course: Supporting Adolescent Learners: Social and Emotional Wellbeing

As we’ve seen, positive youth development (PYD) frameworks focus on the protective and resiliency factors all young people need to live a healthy and happy life. Encompassing all areas as …

You can adopt a positive youth development (PYD) framework from one of the existing PYD models. Adopting a framework will help to ensure your interactions with young adolescents can be …

Exploring the potential plasticity (adaptability to change) of adolescent development has led to the construction of a number of positive youth development (PYD) frameworks that view young adolescents through a …

As we’ve discussed, cognition is the process involving thought, rationale and perception. The brain is at the centre of cognition. Development intertwined with experiences It is a feature of adolescence …

Adolescent developmental domains are intertwined and strongly influenced by experiences and environments. The developmental changes that typically occur in adolescence have been documented extensively in literature that is widely accessible. …

The idea of adolescence has been around for a long time – more than 100 years in fact. Let’s explore how the idea evolved, who some of the theorists are …

Now that we have explored the idea of age-stage developmentalism and adolescence, we can link this to the idea of lifelong learning. In 1996 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …

Week 1 complete Congratulations on getting this far. By now you will have an understanding of adolescence and the main developmental domains characterising this stage, that is: physical social emotional …