Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Where is the space for cognitive development in these conditions?!



It’s not just that the rich have more money than they used to, it’s that they are using it differently... High-income families are increasingly focusing their resources — their money, time and knowledge of what it takes to be successful in school — on their children’s cognitive development and educational success. 

Where is the space for cognitive development?  (Photo: Mateen Ldp Facebook)
 Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development and cognitive psychology compared to an adult's point of view. In other words, cognitive development is the emergence of the ability to think and understand.  A large portion of research has gone into understanding how a child imagines the world.

Children should expend their energy in an enabling environment to develop their cognitive skills, not fight the elements and ugly conditions in order just to learn one letter of the alphabet with a struggle.  (Photo: Monster Bbk Facebook)
Where is the room for cognitive development?!  (Photo: Eng Ponlork Facebook)
Language acquisition

A major, well-studied process and consequence of cognitive development is language acquisition. The traditional view was that this is the result of deterministic, human-specific genetic structures and processes. Other traditions, however, have emphasized the role of social experience in language learning. However, the relation of gene activity, experience, and language development is now recognized as incredibly complex and difficult to specify. Language development is sometimes separated into learning of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and discourse or pragmatics. However, all of these aspects of language knowledge—which were originally posited by the linguist Noam Chomsky to be autonomous or separate—are now recognized to interact in complex ways. 



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

សូម សម្តេចនាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី និង​លោកជំទាវប្រធានកាកបាតក្រហម ជួយប្រជាជនយើងផង។

ពួកគាត់ពិតជាពិបាកណាស់ ទាំងជីវភាព ការរស់នៅ ការអប់រំ ។ល៕

តើបងៗដែលជាបេក្ខជនតំណាងរាស្រ្តថ្មីៗ អាចជួយបានទេ?

Anonymous said...

i the way i see it, what cambodia needs is a social reform to help the needy and the disadvantaged because not the whole cambodia is like this, you know. also, i think certain politicians are quick to exploit this kind of situation as if to make rest of cambodia look bad, you know. maybe, it's time for cambodia to create a gov't agency called the social services and human services like welfare and some kind of social security system or financial assistance agency to help this certain kind of needy people like the elderly, the children, infants, women known as wic in america and also help for the disabled and veterans of war, etc, ok! just call for reform in the the social services area of gov't; that's how we anyone can help to make a real lasting difference in my country cambodia, really! wake up already, ok! it's not even a political problem, it's more like a social services problem which we all know cambodia lacks or very of it if any at all, you know! so help and call for social reforms in cambodia to help rid or lessen the needy! that's how you help, really! whining and crying and politicizing about it won't solve the problem, ok, demand reform in the social services area, that's all!

gov't cannot ignore social problem, there ought to be a gov't agency to address it, you know. blame the politician all you want, but it takes everyone to help make a real lasting difference in cambodia, ok! always remember that there are more to cambodia than just some politicians or you and i or what have you, really! be smart and clever and educated and enlightened, ok! this is certainly not the stone ages nor the dark ages anymore, ok! think about it!

Anonymous said...

even the homeless people can look like this! every country in the world have their own social problem, not unique only to cambodia, ok! so do something to help change it once and for all, ok! politicizing it won't help solve the problem, ok! readers aren't that stupid, you know! they may be ignorant and lack of education but definitely not stupid, there's a difference there, you know!

Anonymous said...

Welcome back, "you know" man!