Lawrence Summers

student would allow for an additional 10,760 dollars of funding. The second concern that children require down time as it is beneficial to them and allows them to engage in play, familial events, and societal occasions such as festivals or tourism. Summer camp is a social gathering event, allowing a child to learn interactive skills and meet other children, taking that activity away would be wrong. However, this concern over peer interaction and learned social skills is easily mitigated, as…

From recognizing objects, to understanding abstract thoughts, and to growing physically, psychologically, and emotionally are equally important aspects of what is characterized as development. Development is a major aspect of a person’s life. It would be hard to characterize a person as a human being if they have not developed and grown. Development and developmental psychology is studying a person’s origins of thinking, language, math skills, and studying how an individual matures with internal…

About Jean Piaget: Jean Piaget was born on August 9th, 1896 in Switzerland. He wrote over sixty books and hundreds of scholastic articles over his lifetime, the first in which he wrote a short paper about the albino sparrow that was considered to be the origins of his scientific career. Piaget studied natural sciences at the University of Neuchatel where he also held multiple chairs in psychology, sociology and history of science. He was also known for holding a chair for the history of…

Introduction When teachers think about teaching reading, they are faced with many challenges. Not only are there hundreds of different programs and strategies to incorporate into lessons, but also teachers always encounter a diverse population of reading students. There are students who are ‘natural’ readers who can pick up a book and enjoy it for hours. Then there some students that will do everything they can to avoid reading or even looking at a book. It is a teacher’s job to find a way to…

Jean Piaget’s study of the development of reasoning gives us the best insights into how we develop the self. This is best understood by assessing the insights of Cartesian dualism. ‘Cogito ergo sum’ is Latin for ‘I think, therefore I am’. In contrast, subjective interactionists claim that the “I” is the subjective self, whereas the “me” is objective. The older I get, the better I am at reasoning with my surroundings; even if I consider my body to be part of my environment. I adapt to my body…

order ease the adoption of St. Lawrence Iroquoians into the Huron-Wendat community. [P] Since style in material culture indicates identity and allows negotiation of social relations (Ramsden 2016:15). ¬ Making a traditional Huron-Wendat vessel with neck decorations sends a sign of political allegiance with the traditional group [P] since that group is dominated by Huron-Wendat membership (Ramsden 2016:16). ¬ Making traditional St. Lawrence Iroquoian vessel sends…

Howling at Moloch Examining a poem and a film in detail to find how they each work as individual pieces and how they function together helps to better understand them. The 1968 poem, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, was the basis for the 2010 film by the same name, which was directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. One of the main themes throughout both the poem and the film was Moloch. The author introduces Moloch in his poem as a metaphor for all the terrible things that separate humanity from…

Briar Anne Strickland was born on February 11, 2015 to Jimmy Dell Strickland and Sarah Anne Jackson Strickland. This gorgeous, precious baby-girl was born five pounds, thirteen ounces in weight and nineteen inches in length. Briar was delivered by Dr. Louise Freeman in Novant Health Presbyterian Hospital’s maternity ward and both mother and daughter were discharged the next day- February 12, 2015. A year later, Briar Anne was a beautiful, bright-eyed young girl and her parents are so blessed to…

1. In your own words, describe Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, describing the major characteristics of each stage. According to Jean Piaget, a child psychologist, children progress through a series of four main stages of cognitive development. Each stage is marked by changes in how the children perceive the world in terms of their thoughts, knowledge and judgment. These stages include: a) The sensorimotor stage: This is the first stage which consists of new born infants to…

Information About Piaget: Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland on 9 August 1896, He died on September 16, 1980. Piaget was the oldest child of Arthur Piaget. He is famous for his learning theories based on different stages in the development of children's intelligence. Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. He developed a deeper interest in psychoanalysis. His contribution includes a theory of child cognitive development and other things. Piaget…