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Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory

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Piaget’s Theory Piaget’s cognitive development theory analyses the growth of children’s development for thinking and intellectual. In fact, American Psychological Association (2015) refers to cognitive development as the ‘The development of processes of knowing, including imagining, perceiving, reasoning, and problem solving’. This essay analyses Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. In addition to this, Piaget’s key concepts will be discussed which include; children and young people construct their own knowledge, individuals possess their own mental templates, equilibration and the stages of cognitive development that children and young people undertake will be investigated. Further to this, a critical reflection will be constructed …show more content…

It is crucial to understand Piaget’s theory of learning; he believes that this is as a dynamic development as information is formed from the individuals themselves. Kamii (1974) emphasizes on the idea argued by Piaget which is that intellectual development is that children must be allowed to do their own learning (Halpenny and Pettersen, 2014, p. 152). To substantiate, Anne Marie Halpenny and Jan Pettersen (2014, p. 153) supports this statement in how educators can acquire and assimilate the concepts in educator’s pedagogy by claiming, that ‘active learning’ within allowing children to explore the environment is is the greatest approach for children to acquire knowledge. This suggest, that the responsibility of educators is to construct certain methodologies within their pedagogy to be able to adapt and develop aspects of Piaget’s theory to offer a learning situation where children are offered to cogitate and consequent to having children have the ability to develop as themselves. In addition to this, using Piaget’s theory in the approach of understanding that primary children from year 3 to year 6 would be distinguished as concrete operational individuals. Hence, an educator can integrate practical activities in which the children can use items in order to encourage them to explore and to help child develop from a disequilibrium notion, to an equilibrium state. Therefore, educators should understand the significance of concrete operational at primary school so the children could maximally achieve the learning goal in accordance to their thinking level that they acquire to there

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Piaget’s theory focus on two aspects. First of all, was interested in the process of cognitive development which was the adaptation to the environment which based on the schema (unit of mental thought), assimilation (new information fits into an existing schema) and accommodation (no fitted information so creation of new schema) (edpsycinteractive 2014). The second was the stages of development. Piaget identified 4 stages of cognitive development, sensory motor stage (infancy), pre-operational stage (toddler and early childhood), concrete operational stage (elementary and early adolescence) and formal operational stage (adolescent and adulthood) (edpsycinteractive 2014). Moreover, there are other researchers who disagree with Piaget’s theory like Vygotsky and Bruner in many aspects.

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