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Comparing Piaget's Theorists And Their Theories

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In this essay, I will be talking about two Theorists and their theories, Vygotsky and Piaget, including background information about them. I will discuss the links between infants’, toddlers’ and young children and the influences on their learning and development, safety and nutrition, health and well-being and environment.

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Piaget: Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist born in 1896 and died in 1980. His cognitive theory is about how children think their world and the environment around them works. One important aspect of his theory is Schemas, which are like files in a child’s brain that stores new and old information. Piaget focused on two processes which he calls assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation being the in-take of new information and already existing information and storing it into the schemas that exist. Accommodation is accommodating new information and expanding the schemas to be able to fit the information into it. Piaget believes children develop through four stages. The first stage is the …show more content…

(Systematic Reviews, 2018). Te Whāriki states that well-being is an environment where the children’s well-being is being nurtured, their health is promoted, and they are safe from harm. This helps children know how to keep themselves healthy and look after themselves, express their needs and to keep themselves and others from harm. (Ministry of Education, 2017, p.24). Teacher’s will help teach the children about the importance of health and well-being, and how to look after themselves so they know how to do it for themselves which helps them in the future as well. This relates to Vygotsky’s strategy Scaffolding, where the teacher helps the child at the start but then slowly withdraws their help, so the child learns to do it on their

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