Jean Clemens

Despite being flawed, Piaget made exceptional contributions to the outlook we have on sensorimotor stages. He outdid those of his time, as most brilliant people who make history do, and his research paved an outline for others to do additional research on. Without the fundamentals of Piaget’s theories we may not have built upon the knowledge of these stages quite as quickly nor as proficiently. The stages of development Piaget recognized led to progression in the way we educate children, and led…

‘how children learn’. Firstly, one of the most influential theories of how children learn in today’s education system is constructivism which has been accepted as a model of children’s cognitive development since the 1950’s when it was developed by Jean Piaget (1896-1980). He aimed to develop a theory which was able to show ‘the nature of knowledge and the ways in which an individual acquires knowledge.’ Smith et al. (2003, p. 388). The theory has three main components to it: schemas, known as…

The mere attempt at perfection is a lost cause, no one in the world can achieve something because one can only be as perfect as his flaws allow. August Wilson’s play, Fences, explores this theme of trying to be the best that one can be through the protagonist, Troy Maxson. His past defines him, where it is fitting to define Troy, and any person for that matter, as the sum of one’s experience. As the choices he makes in the play are defined by prior events in his life, he believes that his…

discussing the biography of Jean Piaget and his influence on education and the studies of children. Piaget was born in 1896. Piaget made an impact on our field by studying the knowledge of young children. First, I will discuss Piaget’s biography, and his life events that guided him in the direction of working with children. Secondly, I will address his contributions on the educational field. Lastly, I will summarize the key points in this writing. Biographical Information Jean Piaget was…

Te Whāriki (Ministry of Education [MoE], 1996), the early childhood curriculum of Aotearoa New Zealand underpins a range of developmental theories; which in turn, contributes to the quality in early childhood education and care. This essay will examine the socio-cultural and ecological perspective of child development in respect of quality and care in the early childhood sector of education in Aotearoa New Zealand. The socio-cultural perspective of child development underpins the notion that…

physical, emotional, social and intellectual changes. Many psychologists including Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, and Erik Erikson, have created developmental stage theories to categorize and evaluate these changes, especially social and emotional developments. In this report I will outline my lifespan development through the infant, toddler, childhood and adolescent stages of development primarily using Jean Piaget’s theory of stages of cognitive development. In infancy, many physical and…

Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory is a standard theory in the field of psychology used to describe how people grow and change with regards to personal reasoning skills. According to the text, Piaget’s cognitive development theory is the “principle that from infancy to adolescence, children progress through four qualitatively different stages of intellectual growth” (Belsky, 2012, p. 22) The four stages (occurring during childhood) developed by Piaget are: Sensorimotor, Preoperations,…

sensorimotor stage (from birth to age two), the preoperational stage (from age two to about age seven), the concrete operational stage (from age seven to eleven) and the formal operational stage (which begins in adolescence and spans into adulthood). Jean Piaget had a constructivist approach of development which means that he believed that infants were born with very little knowledge and learnt about objects through their experience of it. He observes the emergence of object permanence within…

Introduction Throughout the years, the type of toys an infant may receive has increased. Many companies have built today’s toys specifically in helping the development of the child throughout a variety of ways. In addition, the use of toys by a child can also help increase a positive parent-child relationship from engaging in playing (Goldstein, 2012). The purpose of toys is not only to play, but also be able to gain the toy’s developmental benefits (Goldstein, 2012). Thus, if a child does not…

Adolescent egocentrism describes the phenomenon during which adolescents cannot differentiate between their own perception of themselves and the perception of others (Elkind, 1967). It has been looped in with Piaget’s cognitive development theory (Kesselring & Müller, 2010). Though there have been many criticisms over specific details in Adolescent egocentrism regarding Piaget’s theory, people generally seem to agree on two subtopics of adolescent egocentrism: imaginary audience and personal…