3. Beyond Piaget

Question 1

What report referenced Piaget many times and what year was it published in? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 1

Plowden Report 1967

Question 2

What did the report focus on and why did it change educational practices? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 2

• Intellectual activity

- Teacher now should not passively inform, but should facilitate discovery learning

Question 3

Who looked at Piaget’s work on egocentrism? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 3

Selman

Question 4

According to Selman, what were the 5 stages of maturity and what age do they form? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 4

0 = Egocentric (3-6)
1 = Social informational role taking (6-8)
2 = Self reflective role taking (8-10)
3 = Mutual role taking (10-12)
4 = Social and conventional systems role taking (12+)

Question 5

What are strategies in terms of information processing? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 5

Used for optimal storage and retrieval in memory

Question 6

What is automatisation? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 6

Conscious and controlled strategies become automatic, freeing up information processing capacity

Question 7

What is generalisation? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 7

Learning to apply the same strategy across different situations

Question 8

What is metacognition? (Beyond Piaget PCA)

Answer 8

Thinking about thinking