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Psychology is a topic that I was not very familiar With

Psychology is a topic that I was not very familiar with before I started the Child Psychology course as I had never studied it in school or college I studied child care before university however I was never introduced to the psychology side of children's learning The Child Psychology course has allowed me to learn about a variety of topics one being self identity and mental health During the course I learnt the difference between self concept and self esteem which before was something that I considered to be the same thing I learnt that self concept is a person's attempt to build a scheme that organises their impressions attitudes and feelings about themselves however is not permanent Whereas self esteem is an overall evaluation of who you are Woolfolk et al 2013 pg 119 Another subject I learnt from the Child Psychology course was all about constructivism which is an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that cognition is the result of mental construction Gray and MacBlain 2012 pg 70 From this I also learnt about Vygotsky's view on constructivism I had previously learnt about the theorist Vygotsky however I had never studied the constructivism side of him 



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