participant considered were the best aspects of the group for them‚ why the group worked‚ what might change and if they had any suggestions for group activity or structure. The sociocultural theory of Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) and the work of psychologist Dr Tony Attwood were also examined to establish links between theory and practice in the understanding of the social implications of Autism Spectrum Disorder. INTRODUCTION - overview and understanding of ASD Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)‚ while
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process by which an organism (human or animal) grows and changes through its life span” (Smith‚ Cowie & Blades‚ 2003). Cognitive Development therefore concerns itself with how we process information; how we learn. There has been much research into cognitive development‚ and as a result the theory behind it has changed and developed very rapidly over a relatively short period of time. This paper will look at arguably one of the most influential theories of cognitive development- Jean Piaget. We will
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“The solution of the difficulty is plain: motion is in the movable. It is the fulfilment of this potentiality by the action of that which has the power of causing motion; and the actuality of that which has the power of causing motion is not other than the actuality of the movable; for it must be the fulfilment of both. A thing is capable of causing motion because it can do this‚ it is a mover because it actually does it. But it is on the movable that it is capable of acting. Hence there is a single
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Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel‚ Switzerland on August 9‚ 1896. He was the first child of Arthur and Rebecca Piaget. Jean began showing an interest in the natural sciences at a very early age. By age 11‚ he had already started his career as a researcher by writing a short paper on an albino sparrow. He was also very interested in mollusks and by the time he was a teen‚ his papers on mollusks were being widely published. He continued to study the natural sciences and received his Ph.D. in Zoology
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Child theorists have displayed an incredible outlook on the way children develop in many ways. Child development includes the biological‚ psychological‚ and environmental changes that happen within a person from birth to adolescence. Child development also show the progress in which one learns at a certain rate. Jean Jaques Piaget was passionate about the topic of science from a very young age. Piaget’s early life contributed to his work significantly. He was a remarkable theorist in child development
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A theorist called Lev Vygotsky looked and studied how children play and learn he believed that “children are active in their learning” Tassoni 2007:70. Vygotsky believed that children’s play and learning is similar to scaffolding‚ by this he meant that children should be helped and guided but still have the choice to make their own decisions to some extent‚ Vygotsky theory enables practitioners to see how a child learn without to much encouragement‚ this allows us to see a child’s preferred learning
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Introduction COURSEWORK ON MARIA MONTESSORI AND PHILOSOPHY ON CHILD DEVEOPMENT 1. Discuss the meaning of imagination in the first two planes of development. Imagination is a conscious mental process of evoking ideas or images of objects‚ events‚ relations‚ attributes‚ or processes never before experienced or perceived. This is particularly true when their content consists of sensory images. Imagination can be either passive or active‚ according to Anderson‚ R. Cognitive psychology and its
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Jean Piaget (1896-1980) His view of how children’s minds work and develop has been enormously influential‚ particularly in educational theory. His particular insight was the role of maturation in children’s increasing capacity to understand their world: they cannot undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so. He proposed that children’s thinking does not develop entirely smoothly: instead‚ there are certain points at which it “takes off” and moves into completely
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John Dewey Dewey’s philosophy is wide-ranging and original. During his lifetime‚ he published regularly and‚ after an initial flirtation with Hegelianism‚ developed his own distinctive philosophical position. Dewey‚ known as one of the most important of the ‘classical pragmatists’‚ believed that philosophy should be concerned with practical matters‚ and‚ to this end‚ many of his works were on the philosophy of education‚ ethics‚ and social political philosophy (Collinson and Plant 177). John Dewey
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Jean Piaget was a cognitive scientist who was academically trained in biology. He was hired to validate a standardised test of intelligence and from this became very interested in human thought. He was employed to take the age of which children answered each question correctly perfecting the norms for the IQ test. Although the wrong answers took Piagets attention and came to a conclusion that the way children think is a lot more revealing than what they know. Piaget used the methods of scientific
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