EDU360 Developmental Assets July 2010 Education is one of the most important aspects of any child’s life. One day I hope to be a positive and successful teacher‚ where children need and want to have me be a part of their learning and successes throughout their lives. Educational philosophy has changed over the decades‚ and still today‚ not everyone is in total and complete agreement on the subject. Nevertheless‚ one thing is certain: philosophy is the groundwork of learning styles. All children
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Piaget vs. Vygotsky: Comparing and Contrasting “Strategies of Cognitive Development” and “Sociocultural Theory of Development” The Swiss Psychologist‚ Jean Piaget‚ and the Russian Psychologist‚ Lev Vygotsky were both interested in the learning and development‚ specifically among the children. Their theories show that they are both constructivist in their approach. Both of them believe that cognition is a mental construction; that children learn by fitting new info together with that which they
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Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky have created methods and approaches to teaching that have been greatly influential. Both have made excessive contributions to the field of education by illustrating explanations for children’s cognitive learning styles and abilities. Piaget and Vygotsky have differing theories and both strongly believe in different best-practice teaching perspectives. Throughout this essay‚ the theories of Vygotsky and Piaget will be discussed in relation to the Year Five scenario‚ which
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Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Len Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective have played critical roles in educational psychology. Both of these major frameworks will be analyzed and compared. From these two different standpoints‚ it will be illustated how a particular concept or cognitive skill can be taught. Russian psychologist Len Semenovich Vygotsky
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Until a few decades ago‚ scholars believed that young children know very little‚ if anything‚ about what others are thinking. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget‚ who is credited with founding the scientific study of children’s thinking‚ was convinced that preschool children cannot consider what goes on in the minds of others. The interviews and experiments he conducted with kids in the middle of the 20th century suggested that they were trapped in their subjective viewpoints‚ incapable of imagining
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EYT#2 Psy150-OB Piaget: The Preoperational Child I worked with a six year old little girl named Lyla. When I asked Lyla “What holds the sun up in the sky?”‚ she replied‚ “nothing.” When I asked her “Why do trees have leaves?”‚ she replied‚ “I don’t know.” When I asked Lyla “Why does it rain?”‚ she replied‚ “So we can have water‚ duh!”. In the conservation of liquid task‚ I place two clear solo cups on a counter and I filled them equally with fruit punch‚ I had a clear empty vase on
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Tutor Marked Assignment 03 What developmental models best account for the cases of developmental difficulties A large area of research in developmental psychology has been dedicated to identifying a primary cause for the development of disturbed and disturbing behavior as well as its comprehensive definition. Difficulties are due to the complexity of the several factors involved in its development and different models are used to account for causes including medical‚ social environment and transactional
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4. Piaget and Cognitive Development Copyright © 2004‚ James Fleming‚ Ph.D. _______ During this [early childhood] period magic‚ animism‚ and artificialism are completely merged. The world is a society of living beings controlled and directed by man. The self and the external world are not clearly delimited. Every action is both physical and psychical. –Jean Piaget1 ________ Piaget’s Place in the History of Psychology A ranking of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century by professionals
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1.1 What is developmental science‚ and what factors stimulated expansion of the field? Developmental science is an area of scientific study that strives to understand why some things change and others remain constant as we age. The field of developmental science is expanding rapidly due to an exerted social pressure to improve the lives of people. 1.3 Describe the lifespan perspective on development. The lifespan perspective on development is that no one age period impacts development more than
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