Piaget

PiagetDevelopment and Cognition

“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers”

Jean PiagetTaken from thinkexist.com

Essential Factors in Cognitive Development

• Physical Environment• Maturation• Social Influences• Equilibration

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Disequilibrium …is the first step to learning

something new

The Fundamental Processes

•Adapatation= maintain balance•Assimilation = unbutton•Accomodation= gym time•Reflective Abstraction = What

just happened?

Knowledge always involves

interference!!!

And social interactions…

Sensorimotor (0-1)

Schemes and relationships

Opps… Got your nose!!!

Object Permanence

Preoperational (2-7)

Magical thinking… does not differentiate between reality, possibility and necessity. Egocentric= The World according to ME!

Who wants candy?

Some other experiments…

Concrete (7-14)

What goes up must come down.

A=B=C, Conservation, Reversability, Transformation, Classification, Seriation

Reversability

How did she do that?

Formal (14+)

• Abstract thinking, figurative speech• IF……….., THEN………. situations• Deal logically with multifactor situations.• Reasoning proceeds from concrete to hypothetical.• What does this mean for predicting future

consequences of present actions?

The Hypothetical

Educational Implications

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Educational Implications

• Differences, Readiness and Motivation• Teach “How-to-Learn” skills• Social context, reality checking.• Concrete experience to represent

abstract concepts

Problem Solving

“… the skill of problem solving cannot be directly taught.. Instead, the rules

of experimentation and, therefore, the rules for problem solution must

be discovered or reinvented by each student”