The film Piaget’s Development Theory: An Overview was about Jean Piaget, who was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland in 1869. He was a scientist in early age. Throughout his career, he wrote more than sixty books and wrote more than hundred articles. Piaget is known as a psychologist, but he really was an epistemologist. At the age of ten, he published his first scientific paper an observation of an albino sparrow. He was well publisher that by the age of sixteen he was offered sight unseen the Curator Ship a museum but he had to refuse the offer because he had not yet complete high school. He pursued his career in biology and psychology. In 1919, Piaget traveled to Paris to study and took a job at the Alfred Binet Laboratory School.
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Piaget’s stage of Cognitive Development has four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational. He discussed that the age that children achieve these stage of development can vary among individuals. Due to these variations the outlining on Piaget’s stages may also differ slightly. Sensorimotor occurs from birth to eighteen months and during this stage children learn through senses, reflexes, and by manipulate materials. Preoperational takes place from eighteen months to six years and during this stage children form ideas based on their perceptions and focus on one variable at a time. Concrete Operation happens from six years to twelve years and during this stage children form ideas based on reasoning and limit thinking to objects and familiar events. Formal Operational occurs from twelve years to older and in this stage children think conceptually and …show more content…
Many teachers think Piaget focused too much on the thought process and not enough on social emotional development. Children should be exploring by playing not by speaking their thoughts. Piaget also had a similar belief as Montessori that children should be learning experience through play by doing it independently. Children learn best by doing things themselves. They are interest in doing things if they are given opportunities. Piaget thinks children’s minds should be challenged. He thinks children construct their own knowledge by giving meaning to people. For instance, children engage in symbolic play (make-believe play), because they make sense of the objects and things that are surrounding
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Piaget’s stage of Cognitive Development has four stages: Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal Operational. He discussed that the age that children achieve these stage of development can vary among individuals. Due to these variations the outlining on Piaget’s stages may also differ slightly. Sensorimotor occurs from birth to eighteen months and during this stage children learn through senses, reflexes, and by manipulate materials. Preoperational takes place from eighteen months to six years and during this stage children form ideas based on their perceptions and focus on one variable at a time. Concrete Operation happens from six years to twelve years and during this stage children form ideas based on reasoning and limit thinking to objects and familiar events. Formal Operational occurs from twelve years to older and in this stage children think conceptually and …show more content…
Many teachers think Piaget focused too much on the thought process and not enough on social emotional development. Children should be exploring by playing not by speaking their thoughts. Piaget also had a similar belief as Montessori that children should be learning experience through play by doing it independently. Children learn best by doing things themselves. They are interest in doing things if they are given opportunities. Piaget thinks children’s minds should be challenged. He thinks children construct their own knowledge by giving meaning to people. For instance, children engage in symbolic play (make-believe play), because they make sense of the objects and things that are surrounding