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Section 2
OUTCOMES, STATEMENTS, EXAMPLES
OF PUPILS' POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING CONTEXTS
Outcomes
Two outcomes have been identified in personal and social
development:
Personal Development, in terms of knowledge
and understanding, skills and attitudes;
Social Development, in terms of knowledge and understanding,
skills and attitudes.
Personal development is essentially concerned with:
self-awareness
and
self-esteem
Social development is essentially concerned with:
inter-personal relationships
and
independence and inter-dependence
These outcomes are not mutually exclusive. Although they may be separately
identified, in practice they overlap. They provide focuses for assisting
in the planning, implementation and monitoring of personal and social
development.
The following pages of this section are laid out in a way which it is
hoped will be helpful to those engaged in that planning, implementation
and monitoring. Each outcome is expanded into statements, examples of
development and learning contexts.
Statements
A statement elaborates upon an outcome, describing in greater
detail its implications in relation to school, teacher and pupil.
Examples of pupils' potential development
There is no reference to attainment targets at levels A to E in this
document because of the complex nature of pupils' personal and social
development. It is, for example, possible for a twelve year old to be
at a very early stage in some aspects of his or her development while
a much younger child, for a variety of reasons, might be at a later stage.
For some pupils, moving on from an early stage in some aspects of their
development might not prove possible.
Three boxes are used as a device to show some of the general characteristics
of personal and social development which may be attained
or occur at certain stages of a pupil's life between the ages
of 5 and 14.
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