Neo-druidism

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…

Children are interesting individuals. I came to this conclusion the week I was babysitting two of my younger cousins: one a jubilant nine year old and the other at the tender age of three. By the end of the week, I understood that a three year old has a significantly different thinking pattern than their older siblings. To me, the different manners through which my cousins learned, thought, and expressed themselves was extremely fascinating. Eager to understand these differences in greater…

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…

The theories of children’s cognitive development are demonstrated by Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Piaget’s theory points out that there are four stages in children’s cognitive development and each stage has a particular age group. As the transitions between stages are processed, changes in cognitive skills will appear. Meanwhile, Vygotsky suggests the cognitive development of children is by working together and learning from other people. He emphasizes the importance of socio-cultural impacts…

Ann 's year 5 class can be used to relate the theory of four stages of cognitive development and sociocultural origins of cognitive development. Jean Piaget and Lev Semanovich Vygotsky are the two most powerful theorists of cognitive development in today 's classroom teaching. The father of constructivism, Piaget 's theory focused on stages that are invariant which are sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage and formal operational stage. He portrayed how adaptation…

Jean Piaget was born in 1896 in Switzerland, he was a developmental psychologist. He is best known for his work on cognitive development. He was the first psychologist to say that children learn in different ways than adults. It was while he was working at the Binet Institute in the 1920’s devising intelligence tests that Piaget became fascinated by the fact that children of the same age often gave the same incorrect answers. From here he began to explore the development of the reasoning process…

The Development of Personality Personality is who we are as people. Our personalities determine how we act, react and how we interact with and/or respond to the world. What is personality? A set of stable characteristics is our personality, which is a set of traits that begins with genetic plans and is completed as those plans are expressed by physical growth in the brain as it develops in response to the demands of the environment. This brain growth is carried out in a series steps called…

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…

Introduction Jean Piaget is a world renown psychologist who is mostly known for his work with children. Although, his work is vastly criticized due to the test subjects being his own children and no one else these theories have proven true time and time again. Piaget believes that there are four stages to development which are sensorimotor intelligence, preoperational thought, concrete operations, and formal operations (Wadsworth, 2004). Using the Piagetian Task Kit, I was able to observe…