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Piaget
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- 1Jean PiagetJean Piaget is arguably the most influential figure in developmental psychology and, in particular, in educational theory. In the 1950s he put forward his Stage Theory of Development in which he argued that children must progress through natural stages of cognitive development, becoming more competent at each stage. Also central to Piaget’s theory is the argument that children begin development by being cognitively egocentric and become less ego-centred as they move through each stage. Importantly, Piaget believed that the next stage of learning is only possible when the appropriate development stage is reached (Oates, Sheehy, and Wood, 2005).
- 2Piaget clearly recognized there was a difference in how children and adults process information and understand the world, he did not take this difference into account when he designed the experiments upon which he based his theory.Piaget’s belief that children think differently to adults and they actively select and interpret information was in stark contrast to the Behaviourists’ view that children are not only passive and predictable, but also need to be taught everything. Piaget’s theory was also revolutionary because of his argument that learning s an individual and constructive process and that a child’s development is driven by innate factors.
- 3Piaget also argued that children begin development by being cognitively egocentric and therefore fail to understand that other people have a different perspective from their own. By the ‘pre-operational’ stage Piaget argued that children were still fundamentally egocentric and he used his famous ‘three mountain task’ to demonstrate this.
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