Unit 331 Understanding children and young person’s development. Task B2 (Ref: 2.3) Theories of child development. An understanding of child development is essential; it allows us to fully appreciate the cognitive‚ emotional‚ physical‚ social and educational growth that children go through from birth and into early adulthood. Child development is a multidisciplinary subject; it draws on various academic fields‚ including psychology‚ neuroscience‚ sociology‚ paediatrics‚ biology and genetics
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studied‚ and understood—underlies much of the curricular and instructional decision-making that occurs in education. Constructivism‚ perhaps the most current psychology of learning‚ is no exception. Initially based on the work of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky‚ and then supported and extended by contemporary biologists and cognitive scientists‚ it is having major ramifications on the goals teachers set for the learners with whom they work‚ the instructional strategies teachers employ in working
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Piagetian theory. Jean Piaget is credited with the cognitive-developmental theory that views the child “as actively constructing knowledge and cognitive development as taking place in stages” (Berk‚ 2000‚ p.21). He introduced the term schema and its use was popularized through his work based on his four development stages‚ Sensorimotor (0-2yrs)‚ Pre-Operational (2-6 or 7)‚ Concrete Operational (6 or 7-11 or 12) and Formal Operational (11 or 12). Chris Athey (2007) was influenced by Piagets’ schemas and developmental
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development to be successful and balanced. One of the most important theorists that influenced our current practice today is Piaget‚ who whilst being a protagonist of child learning is also the most famous for his four stages of cognitive development. Cognitive development is the development of the mind‚ how it works and the use of mental processes such as reasoning. Piaget suggested that children learn in stages in relation to their senses and their age‚ and they need to acquire mastery of each stage
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weaknesses of those theories. There are many theorists that have influenced the way we look at children’s learning‚ across a period of many years. The theorists that are going to be mentioned are Jerome Bruner‚ B F Skinner‚ Lev Vygotsky‚ Noam Chomsky‚ Albert Bandura and Jean Piaget. Lev Vygotsky‚ Jerome Bruner‚ and Albert Bandura all form what is known as a social constructivist view. This has its disadvantages and advantages‚ as do all the other models. The main advantages of the social constructivist
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current educational practice. So the question is “How do we learn?” For decades‚ researchers and scientists have been discussing how children come to understand the world we live in and how learning occurs. Theorists such as H.Gardner‚ Paiget‚ Vygotsky and Maslow have spent years studying the adolescent brain to find out how we learn and they have all come up with different learning styles. A learning style is the way in which each learner begins to concentrate on‚ process and retain new and
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Learning Theorists Piaget (1896-1980) described development as going through different mental processes. He believed that all children pass through the stages but environmental influences on children will vary the ages each stage is reached. A child who is given more learning opportunities will develop faster by progressing through the stages at a faster rate. Therefore play and children activites facilitated by an adult increase he rate of development. Sensory Motor Stage: Birth to 2 Years-An
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This theory stresses the interaction between developing people and the culture in which they live. Sociocultural theory grew from the work of seminal psychologist Lev Vygotsky‚ who believed that parents‚ caregivers‚ peers and the culture at large were responsible for the development of higher order functions. According to Vygotsky‚ "Every function in the child’s cultural development appears twice: first‚ on the social level‚ and later‚ on the individual level; first‚ between people (interpsychological)
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References: Asher‚ James J‚ (1979) Learning Another Language Through Actions. San Jose‚ California: AccuPrint‚. Bruner‚ J (1966). Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge‚ MA: Harvard University Press. Bruner‚ J (1973). Going Beyond the Information Given. New York: Norton. Curran. & Charles A. (1976) Counseling-Learning in Second Languages. Apple River‚ Illinois: Apple River Press. Chomsky‚ N. (1968). Language
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real life. Finally determining whether Piaget’s theory is applicable‚ and if it’s a strong theory overall. Jean Piaget who was born in Switzerland in 1896 developed the cognitive theory which can be understood as the study of knowledge. This theory can also be described as ‘A comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence’ (Berk‚ 2009) According to Piaget‚ human infants do not start out as cognitive beings. Instead‚ out of their perceptual and motor activities‚ they
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