TA for Learners - 00.08 Cycles of Human Development
TA for Learners 00.08 Cycles of Human Development (This Blog is a Chapter in 'My Little TA Book') List of Contents Cycles of Human Development Nature subjects us to very many tasks as we live through our infancy, childhood, teenage years, youth and early adulthood. These tasks are meant for us to master motor, cognitive, social and emotional skills in the main. Pamela Levine discovered that life tasks repeat when we cross 26 years of age. She called them seasons of life. They occur in repeating 13 year and 19 year cycles. The 13 year cycle forms part of the first 19 year cycle. We clear five stages in the 13 year cycle and 10 stages (two sets of five stages) in the 19 year cycle. The five stages are called being, doing, thinking, identity and skills stages. They last for 6 months, 12 months, 18 months, 36 months and 72 months in the 13 year cycle and first 13 years of the 19 year cycle and for 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 18 months and 36 months in the remaining 6 ...