مقاله Maturational Perspective

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As it became clear that not all children entering school were equally adept at performing in kindergarten, and some clearly struggled with the curricula, the concept of maturational approaches to school readiness developed. In large part, this notion grew out of the work of Gesell (1940), and the conclusion from some that a major cause of school failure was a simple unreadiness for the work of the grade in which the child was placed (Ilg et al., 1978). To better understand the development of maturational approaches to school readiness, it is necessary to disentangle concepts of readiness to learn and readiness for school. Kagan (1990) presents an excellent discussion of the important conceptual differences between these two constructs related to readiness. Readiness for learning is considered to be the level of development at which the individual has the capacity to undertake learning specific subject matter, and recognizes the fluidity of the multiple developmental processes that influence such readiness. In contrast, readiness for school is a more rigid construct, dictating the belief that a specific set of cognitive, linguistic, social, and motor skills must be attained to indicate readiness.