Piaget and cognitive developmental theory
I can consider myself as a half Piagetian educator. I am extremely influenced by his cognitive developmental theory, and although I agree Piagets up to a point, I cannpt accept his overall conclusion on cognitive development occurs in stages and has universality. Piaget claims development is discontinuous and occurs in stages, but I still insist that the development is continuous and each child uniquely experiences all these developmental stages according to their capacity. Therefore development of a child should be unrestricted by age. Piaget’s idea of universality, which assumes all children experience the developmental stages in same age and across the word, is a huge generalization. Piaget did not taking into account the social and cultural influences on the child’s development.
However, Piaget helped me to see the way teaching and learning occurs in the human’s brain. The child tries to make sense the things happening around her. She builds structures called schemes then she use the schemes along with new experience to interpret new experience which called assimilation, then accommodation comes in which she creates new schemes. As you can see, the previous …show more content…
For this reason, as a teacher I adopt some part of Piaget’s theory, I would create an environment for the students that accommodates to their readiness level or their previous experience, then let them to explore new schemes. Another thing that I will offer to students would be a play and hands on activity based environment. Since children’s work is play, and Piaget also used play to support his ideas about how children develop new schemes. I agree with that during the play children are reaching another level and it is not only beneficial for their cognitive skills, but also social
I can consider myself as a half Piagetian educator. I am extremely influenced by his cognitive developmental theory, and although I agree Piagets up to a point, I cannpt accept his overall conclusion on cognitive development occurs in stages and has universality. Piaget claims development is discontinuous and occurs in stages, but I still insist that the development is continuous and each child uniquely experiences all these developmental stages according to their capacity. Therefore development of a child should be unrestricted by age. Piaget’s idea of universality, which assumes all children experience the developmental stages in same age and across the word, is a huge generalization. Piaget did not taking into account the social and cultural influences on the child’s development.
However, Piaget helped me to see the way teaching and learning occurs in the human’s brain. The child tries to make sense the things happening around her. She builds structures called schemes then she use the schemes along with new experience to interpret new experience which called assimilation, then accommodation comes in which she creates new schemes. As you can see, the previous …show more content…
For this reason, as a teacher I adopt some part of Piaget’s theory, I would create an environment for the students that accommodates to their readiness level or their previous experience, then let them to explore new schemes. Another thing that I will offer to students would be a play and hands on activity based environment. Since children’s work is play, and Piaget also used play to support his ideas about how children develop new schemes. I agree with that during the play children are reaching another level and it is not only beneficial for their cognitive skills, but also social