Basic Capabilities:
Children’s basic capabilities are those that form the broad basis for the development of understanding, values and skills.
a. Language and other forms of expression provide the basis for meaning making, and sharing with others. They create possibilities of development of understanding and knowledge, providing the ability to symbolise, codify, and to remember and record. Development of language for a child is synonymous with development of understanding and identity, and also the capability of relating with others. It is not only verbal languages with scripts, but also languages without scripts, sign languages, scripts such as Braille and the performing arts, that provide the bases for making meaning and the expression.
b. Forming and sustaining relationships with the social world, with the natural world, and with one’s self, with emotional richness, sensitivity and values. This gives meaning to life, providing it with emotional content and purpose. This is also the basis for ethics and morality.
c. Capabilities for work and action involves the coordination of bodily movement with thought and volition, drawing on skill and understanding, and directing oneself to achieve some purpose or create something. It also involves handling tools and technologies, and the ability to manipulate and organise things and experiences, and to communicate.
Children’s basic capabilities are those that form the broad basis for the development of understanding, values and skills.
a. Language and other forms of expression provide the basis for meaning making, and sharing with others. They create possibilities of development of understanding and knowledge, providing the ability to symbolise, codify, and to remember and record. Development of language for a child is synonymous with development of understanding and identity, and also the capability of relating with others. It is not only verbal languages with scripts, but also languages without scripts, sign languages, scripts such as Braille and the performing arts, that provide the bases for making meaning and the expression.
b. Forming and sustaining relationships with the social world, with the natural world, and with one’s self, with emotional richness, sensitivity and values. This gives meaning to life, providing it with emotional content and purpose. This is also the basis for ethics and morality.
c. Capabilities for work and action involves the coordination of bodily movement with thought and volition, drawing on skill and understanding, and directing oneself to achieve some purpose or create something. It also involves handling tools and technologies, and the ability to manipulate and organise things and experiences, and to communicate.
