Comparing Theorists Jean Piaget was the first psychologist to suggest a theory of moral development. According to Piaget‚ development emerges from action‚ and people construct and reconstruct their knowledge of the world as a result of interactions with the environment. He wanted to find the “biological explanation of knowledge”. Piaget’s theory identifies four developmental stages‚ which are: 1. Sensorimotor stage (birth - 2)‚ 2. Pre-operational stage (2-7 years old)‚ 3. Concrete operational
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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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Discuss Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development (8+16) Vygotsky proposed that children’s development is affected by their culture and social interaction. He also suggested that children are not born with knowledge but they gain it through their social interactions with peers and adults; he does not rule out the importance of biological processes but proposes an interdependent relationship between biological development alongside social activity and cultural interaction. Since language is
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Children do not develop in isolation. Vygotsky (1978) states: "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) and then inside the child (intrapsychological). This applies equally to voluntary attention‚ to logical memory‚ and to the formation of concepts. All the higher functions originate as actual relationships between individuals." Vygotsky (1978) also states that "learning
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children’s learning and development. It further goes on to discuss how they could be used to inform practice in the classroom. The two theories to be discussed are Vygotsky’s Social Development Theory and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Theory. Lev Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist who lived from 1896 to 1934. He was widely involved in developing the education program of the emerging Soviet Union. At the time of his death‚ his theory was not known outside of the Soviet Union because it was repressed
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Cognition is the process involved in thinking and mental activity. Cognitive theories are not centred on the unconscious mind of the child but emphasized the conscious thoughts. In this essay I will discuss the cognitive theories of Piaget and Vygotsky‚ who were both influential in forming a more scientific approach to analysing the cognitive development process of the child. I will outline Piaget’s theory of the four stages of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s theory on the sociocultural cognitive
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Piaget felt that it was important to look at the construction of intelligence and how it changes with time as a child grows. Vygotsky on the other hand believes that intelligence is the ability to learn from instruction which revolves around the social system. The theorists views on the stages of development from birth to adolescence is explained next. Vygotsky believed that there were six major stages: affiliation‚ play‚ learning‚ peer‚ work and theorizing. Whereas Piaget only has four major
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Vygotsky’s Cognitive Development Theory Lev Vygotsky theorized that an individual’s psychological development is shaped by his/her historical and social environment. In contrast to Piaget’s developmental theory which emphasizes one’s genetic inner substance for cognitive development‚ Vygotsky’s model gave central focus to social interaction and the structuring power of content in the learning process. In accordance with locating the external aspects of the major element of human development‚ he
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It was seen as a personal process that included the social and cultural contexts which shape what an adult learns. These contexts also influence what the adult chooses to learn and how he or she learns it. These theories are based on the works of Vygotsky‚ who introduced the notion that social experiences not only shape the ways that students think about their world but also how they interpret it. Although sociolultural theory is based on research which dates back for decades‚ recent studies have
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