Comparing Vygotsky and Piaget
Team Piaget or Team Vygotsky? It is hard to decide which psychologist came closer to the actual understanding of cognitive development. According to Orlando Lourenco (Piaget and Vygotsky: Many resemblances, and a crucial difference, 2012), both have made a huge impact on developmental psychology and education. Both theorist have analyzed a very important subject and have changed the educational setting drastically by recognizing cognitive development and learning patters in children through adolescents. However, society has embraced the realization that Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky will continue a battle of who theorized the most accurate realization of child development.
Brief Summary of the Theories of Piaget …show more content…
Similarly with active learning, Piaget believed that children organize new information with existing information to obtain a state of equilibrium (Lourenco, 2012). Vygotsky also believed that children learn from active learning, however, they learn through socializing with an adult or peer of a higher level of understanding and providing feedback to a superior or teacher. In addition to the social interaction and active learning, the psychologists concur that everyone is different and the rate of development for a child is different, declining with age giving the rate of development a wave-like …show more content…
These psychologists are said to have great reasoning behind their theories of cognitive development, however, the other still disagree with the other’s reasoning. Piaget theorized a child’s cognition comes from the child themselves and through natural sciences. Vygotsky combats that the child is dependent upon the social surroundings he/she is in and patronizes the platform effect.
Jean Piaget developed his theory anchored around autonomy and key concepts of transformation, construction, reconstruction, invention, and reinvention giving his theory of cognitive development an independent ramification. Lev Vygotsky, on the other hand, developed his theory around heteronomy and the key concepts of transmission, guidance, and instruction (Lourenco, 2012) demarcating his cultural-historical theory as
Team Piaget or Team Vygotsky? It is hard to decide which psychologist came closer to the actual understanding of cognitive development. According to Orlando Lourenco (Piaget and Vygotsky: Many resemblances, and a crucial difference, 2012), both have made a huge impact on developmental psychology and education. Both theorist have analyzed a very important subject and have changed the educational setting drastically by recognizing cognitive development and learning patters in children through adolescents. However, society has embraced the realization that Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky will continue a battle of who theorized the most accurate realization of child development.
Brief Summary of the Theories of Piaget …show more content…
Similarly with active learning, Piaget believed that children organize new information with existing information to obtain a state of equilibrium (Lourenco, 2012). Vygotsky also believed that children learn from active learning, however, they learn through socializing with an adult or peer of a higher level of understanding and providing feedback to a superior or teacher. In addition to the social interaction and active learning, the psychologists concur that everyone is different and the rate of development for a child is different, declining with age giving the rate of development a wave-like …show more content…
These psychologists are said to have great reasoning behind their theories of cognitive development, however, the other still disagree with the other’s reasoning. Piaget theorized a child’s cognition comes from the child themselves and through natural sciences. Vygotsky combats that the child is dependent upon the social surroundings he/she is in and patronizes the platform effect.
Jean Piaget developed his theory anchored around autonomy and key concepts of transformation, construction, reconstruction, invention, and reinvention giving his theory of cognitive development an independent ramification. Lev Vygotsky, on the other hand, developed his theory around heteronomy and the key concepts of transmission, guidance, and instruction (Lourenco, 2012) demarcating his cultural-historical theory as