Jean Piaget's Cognitive Development
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IMPLICATION OF THE PIAGET’S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY IN TEACHING
The
cognitive development theory has claimed that teachers and educators can learn
about children’s thinking by attentively listening to them and closely observing
how they use their thinking skills to solve certain problems. If it is accomplished, it would be easier for
the teachers to use different teaching methodologies and techniques which is
more adequate to their level
A
typical classroom have students of different level in which their capabilities,
thinking, experiences and knowledge varies from one another. According...
STAGES OF CHILD’S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN PIAGET’S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT THEORY
Piaget
categorizes the stages of cognitive development of the child into four
development stage such as sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational
and formal operational. As shown in the Table 1, every stage is associated with
certain age. Hence, the development progressing ages are just a basic
guidelines which labels the development of a child in general but it is not
fixed for all human beings as it might vary for some.
However,
Piaget...
Human Development: Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development: an INTRODUCTION
Over
the past centuries Educators and Psychologist have observed these developmental
changes occurred throughout human life and they came up with various
theoretical perspectives as such Psychoanalytic, Social-learning, Cognitive
learning, Biological / Ethological and Ecological. Although there are
contradiction on the development and the way it take place in these theories,
some underlined principle of these theories include the continuous...
