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===== What is the practical meaning of stage theory of cognitive development? ===== | ===== What is the practical meaning of stage theory of cognitive development? ===== | ||
- | * **Sensorimotor stage** - Teaching an infant in this stage should be orientated on its sensorimotor system. | + | Implications of Piaget's theory on the learning process address respecting the stage of the cognitive development of a child and adjusting teaching expectations to it. Suggestions for this are the following: |
- | * **Preoperational stage** - Children can now actively engage in learning and exploring. | + | |
- | * **Preoperational stage** - Learning in this stage is facilitated through an opportunity to ask questions and get explanations which allow learner to mentally mentally manipulate information. | + | * Sensorimotor stage - Teaching an infant in this stage should be orientated on its **sensorimotor system**. |
- | * **Formal operations** - Teaching for the adolescent may be wideranging because he'll be able to consider many possibilities from several perspectives. | + | * Preoperational stage - Children can now **actively** engage in **learning and exploring**. |
+ | * Preoperational stage - Learning in this stage is facilitated through an opportunity to ask **questions** and get **explanations** which allow learner to mentally mentally manipulate information. | ||
+ | * Formal operations - Teaching the adolescent expands in its dimensions as he is able to consider many possibilities from **several perspectives**. | ||
===== Criticism ===== | ===== Criticism ===== |