Piaget’s Theory Of Cognition

Question 1

✅[PIAGET] REAL-WORLD APPLICATION TO TEACHING:

Answer 1

• Transforms classroom practices by promoting active, discovery-based learning.
• For example, his readiness approached suggests that children aged 7-11 learn concrete subjects best through project-based work, such as using sand put to develop conservation skills.
• This demonstrates that by aligning teaching methods with children’s developmental stages, learning becomes more tailored and effective, shifting the teacher’s role from a source of rote learning to a facial tour of discovery.

    > However, Lazonder and Harmsen found that it was the considerable input from teachers, not the discovery learning itself, that was the most crucial element.

• (+application)

Question 2

X [PIAGET] Unrepresentative, ethnocentric sample

Answer 2

• For example, in Dasen’s cross-cultural researcher, it was found that cognitive development is not universal as Piaget suggested, with aboriginal children excelling on spatial awareness, but developed conservation skills much later.
• This highlights a weakness of PIAGET’S sample, which was drawn of Geneva nursery, where children came from white, middle-class Swiss families with ample educational opportunities; children from poorer backgrounds might diplay different aptitudes or levels of intellectual curiosity and varying needs to achieve equilibrium
• (-generalisability)

Question 3

X [PIAGET] Underestimates the role of others in learning compared to Vygotsky

Answer 3

• Vygotsky proposed that learning occurs through interactions with MKOs, Piaget regarded peers and teachers merely as facilitators of discovery.
• PIAGET’S focus on individual discovery highlights the importance if self-initiated learning, which is a fundamental aspect of cognitive growth.
• [-validity]