Piaget´s theory

Piaget´s theory

1. How a child constructs a mental model of the world

2. How a child constructs mental model of the world

3. Piaget showed that young children think in strikingly different ways compared to adults.

4. 3 basic components to Piaget´s cognitive theory

   • 1. Schemas
   • 2. Adaptation (equilibrium, assimilation, and accommodation)
   • 3. Stages of cognitive development (sensorimotor, preoperational,, concrete operational, formal operational

5. 4 stages of cognitive development.

   • 1. sensorimotor stage (birth to age 2)
     • 2. Preoperational stage (from age 2 to age 7)
       • 3. Concrete operational stage (age 7 to age 11)
         • 4. Formal operational stage (age 11 +- adolescence and adulthood)

6. Educational Implications

   • Teachers should encourage the following within classroom
     • Focus on the process of learning, rather than the end product of it.
     • Using active methods that requiere rediscovering or reconstructig "truths"
     • Using collaboative, as well as individual activities.
     • Evaluate the level of the child´s development sosuitable tasks con be set.
     • Devising situatiton that present useful problems and create disequilibrium in the child

7. Intellectual growht as a process of ADAPTATION.

   • ASIMILATION... deal a new object or situation.
     • ACCOMODATION...Happen when the existing (knowledge) does not work and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation
     • EQUILIBRATION.. Occurs when a chilld´s schem,as can deal with most new information through assimilation.

8. Schema is "The basic building block of intelligent behavior.