Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development.
Piaget is best known for reorganising cognitive development theory into a series of stages. Each stage is characterised by a general cognitive structure that effects all of the child's thinking. Each stage represents the child's understanding of reality during that period. Development from one stage to the next is thus caused by the accumulation of errors in the child's understanding of the environment; this accumulation eventually causes such a degree of cognitive disequilibrium that thought structures require reorganising.
The four development stages are described in Piaget's theory asSensorimotor stage: from birth to age 2 years (children experience the world through movement and senses and learn object permanence)Preoperational stage: from ages 2 to 7 (acquisition of motor skills)Concrete operational stage: from ages 7 to 11 (children begin to think logically about concrete events)Formal operational stage: after age 11 (development of abstract reasoning).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget
Piaget believed there is a biological inevitability to how children develop. Piaget's theory has had a major impact on educators and schooling because of the insights he has provided:
children think differently (in qualitative terms) at various stages of their development. Their movement through these stages depends on the quality of their experiences.
learning requires active involvement, physically and mentally, between the child and the environment
children build their own cognitive structures.
children think differently to adults and their thinking levels vary at different stages.
- Marsh, Colin Becoming a Teacher - Knowledge, Skills and Issues 3rd edition pp. 17-18
Jean Piaget (August 9, 1896 – September 16, 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children and his theory of cognitive development.
Piaget is best known for reorganising cognitive development theory into a series of stages. Each stage is characterised by a general cognitive structure that effects all of the child's thinking. Each stage represents the child's understanding of reality during that period. Development from one stage to the next is thus caused by the accumulation of errors in the child's understanding of the environment; this accumulation eventually causes such a degree of cognitive disequilibrium that thought structures require reorganising.
The four development stages are described in Piaget's theory asSensorimotor stage: from birth to age 2 years (children experience the world through movement and senses and learn object permanence)Preoperational stage: from ages 2 to 7 (acquisition of motor skills)Concrete operational stage: from ages 7 to 11 (children begin to think logically about concrete events)Formal operational stage: after age 11 (development of abstract reasoning).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget
Piaget believed there is a biological inevitability to how children develop. Piaget's theory has had a major impact on educators and schooling because of the insights he has provided:
children think differently (in qualitative terms) at various stages of their development. Their movement through these stages depends on the quality of their experiences.
learning requires active involvement, physically and mentally, between the child and the environment
children build their own cognitive structures.
children think differently to adults and their thinking levels vary at different stages.
- Marsh, Colin Becoming a Teacher - Knowledge, Skills and Issues 3rd edition pp. 17-18
MY THOUGHTS
In some aspects of Piaget's theory i disagree, i think this is becuase i seem to agree with other theorist more. This theory does not give students the abliltiy to learn in their own time and at their own pace, as i believe that we are all differnt and have different gifts and talents. Some students may understand things better then others or faster then others. And i do not think that this gives students time to learn at their own ability.
In some aspects of Piaget's theory i disagree, i think this is becuase i seem to agree with other theorist more. This theory does not give students the abliltiy to learn in their own time and at their own pace, as i believe that we are all differnt and have different gifts and talents. Some students may understand things better then others or faster then others. And i do not think that this gives students time to learn at their own ability.
Piaget's theory has help me realise that all children develop at different speeds, and there is no one universal or uniform way to teach a lesson - I need to satisfy all the different learnign abilities in my classroom.
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