Throughout this assignment one of the theorists I will be using are going to be Jean Piaget. Piaget was a biologist who previously studied molluscs and then later on went onto studying development of children which is when he began his theory. While carrying out his research Piaget developed the following key ideas: Adaptation, assimilation, accommodation, classification, class inclusion, conservation, decantation, egocentrism, operation, schema (scheme) and stage. Piaget created four categories for the children’s characteristic for the different ages of the children, in order they were; sensori-motor (birth – 2 years), Pre-operational (2-7 years), Concrete operational (7-11 years) and also the formal operational (11 years and above). His view on how children’s minds operate was that a child couldn’t take on a task until they reached a specific stage in mutilation, this is where he decided to categories those ages for children however he didn’t seem to take into account that some children may be over/under achieving compared to the regular ability children within the setting. …show more content…
Therefore Piaget grouping of children could be considered at biased, unfair and/or invalid because the age gap between children in the same category is big. However in my own opinion I think that the theory is limited because Piaget only carried out the theory on his own children and not a variety of different