Both Piaget and Estes believed that learning takes place in an all or none sense. Someone cannot learn something if they cannot relate it to something they already have learned. The best classroom setting for this would be if the teacher related the new subject to the subject they had just left off on. The major difference between these two theorists would be that William Estes described his theories through mathematical questions while Jean Piaget had more of a cognitive focus and described his theory through four different stages of
Both Piaget and Estes believed that learning takes place in an all or none sense. Someone cannot learn something if they cannot relate it to something they already have learned. The best classroom setting for this would be if the teacher related the new subject to the subject they had just left off on. The major difference between these two theorists would be that William Estes described his theories through mathematical questions while Jean Piaget had more of a cognitive focus and described his theory through four different stages of