Jean Piaget's Stages Of Intellectual Development

Jean Piaget is most know for introducing the stages of child development these stages directly relate to play as he stated that intellectual growth occurs as a child goes through the stages of assimilation or manipulating the outside world to meet their owns needs.
Children not only learn through intellectual play but other arears for example: Physical development this can be the children doing fine or gross motor skills such as riding a bike or sorting shapes these two developments are allowing the children to think about their eye-hand co-ordination when it comes to sorting shapes or hand- foot and eye co-ordination when riding a bike. Emotionally and socially children achieve this by interacting with other children in their environment through playing games which involves their imagination and co-operating with other children about rules within the games and how the game will develop.
Intellectual development is all about learning. It is about how individuals organise their minds, ideas and thoughts to make sense of the world they live in. (McLeod,