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The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925 [1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate of maturational growth in normal and exceptional children"(Gesell 1928). [2]
The Gesell Developmental Schedules are a set of developmental metrics which outline the ages & stages of development in young children developed by Dr. Arnold Gesell and colleagues. [1] The original scale is generally considered not to satisfy the standards of rigor currently accepted in the field of psychometrics and is no longer used as an ...
Arnold Lucius Gesell (21 June 1880 – 29 May 1961) was an American psychologist, pediatrician and professor at Yale University known for his research and contributions to the fields of child hygiene and child development.
Maturationism is an early childhood educational philosophy that sees the child as a growing organism and believes that the role of education is to passively support this growth rather than actively fill the child with information. This theory suggests that growth and development unfold from within the organism. [1]
The Gesell Institute of Child Development is a 501c(3)non-profit organization located in the Gesell Institute building on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It promotes to and educates child care professionals on the principles of child development originally laid down by the institutional namesake, Arnold ...
The first five years of life: a guide to the study of the preschool child, from the Yale clinic of child development, 1940 (with Arnold Gesell) Child development, an introduction to the study of human growth, 1943; Vision, its development in infant and child, 1946 (with Arnold Gesell) The child from five to ten, 1946; L'Enfant de 5 à 10 ans, 1949
The First Five Years of Life (1940), Infant and Child in the Culture of Today (1943), and The Child From Five to Ten (1946) extended Gesell’s descriptions of children’s stages of growth from motor and cognitive development to that of personal-social activity. [2] In 1938, Ames made the first of a number of films about child development.
Arnold Gesell was the creator of the maturational theory of development. Gesell said that development occurs due to biological hereditary features such as genetics and children will reach developmental milestones when they are ready to do so in a predictable sequence. [13]