Jean Piaget's Influence On Child Development

Jean Piaget a Swiss scientist played a significant role in child development, his concept was that children actively learn by exploring their environment and he believed that they start to develop through a cognitive means and use internal processes. He carried out experiments that related to the constructive approach, which often involved children and his family members to see how they would react and behave. “Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself”. (Jean Piaget 1972:27) Piaget’s principle was that if an adult directs or has any influence on the progress and education of a young person then their skills and capabilities would be affected negatively. Instead a child’s knowledge increases through what they