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| Piaget was also concerned with the instructional methodology for children where he was a proponent of: | Piaget was also concerned with the instructional methodology for children where he was a proponent of: | ||
| - | * Naturalism - a belief that **natural learning is always the best learning**. Origins of this idea can be traced back to as far back as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau|Jean Jacques Rousseau]] and it means that the best learning occurs through **everyday processes** and **spontaneous acquisition** of operations or concepts through normal experience. This idea seemed intuitively it was at the time accepted even without experimental validation. | + | * **Naturalism** - a belief that **natural learning is always the best learning**. Origins of this idea can be traced back to as far back as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau|Jean Jacques Rousseau]] and it means that the best learning occurs through **everyday processes** and **spontaneous acquisition** of operations or concepts through normal experience. This idea seemed intuitively it was at the time accepted even without experimental validation. |
| - | * Constructivism - Piaget was a constructivist theorist suggesting children **construct** their knowledge through **interaction of their biological predispositions with their experience**. **Active self-discovery** of rules underlying current concepts and outcomes is the key to learning. | + | * **Constructivism** - Piaget was a constructivist theorist suggesting children **construct** their knowledge through **interaction of their biological predispositions with their experience**. **Active self-discovery** of rules underlying current concepts and outcomes is the key to learning. |
| ===== What is the practical meaning of stage theory of cognitive development? ===== | ===== What is the practical meaning of stage theory of cognitive development? ===== | ||
| - | Piaget's theory suggests that in order to make learning effective, learner's stage of the cognitive development needs to be taken into account. General suggestions for adopting teaching methods to the four stages of development are following: | + | Piaget's theory suggests that in order to make learning effective, |
| - | * **Sensorimotor stage** - teaching an infant in this stage should be orientated on its **sensorimotor system**. | + | * learner's stage of cognitive development needs to be taken into account or it all be just a waste of time, |
| - | * **Preoperational stage** - children can now **actively** engage in **learning and exploring**. | + | * no forced steps forward should be made, |
| - | * **Preoperational stage** - learning in this stage is facilitated through an opportunity to ask **questions** and get **explanations** which allow learner to mentally manipulate information. | + | * learning should occur in natural everyday conditions through active experimentation. |
| - | * **Formal operations** - teaching the adolescent expands in its dimensions as he is able to consider many possibilities from **several perspectives**. | + | |
| - | Piaget's theory also suggests that teachers should | + | Aside from that, Piaget was mostly orientated on learning in |
| - | * value child's cognitive processes which led him to a conclusion as well as the conclusion, | + | * preoperational period - when children should and can **actively** engage in **learning and exploring**, and |
| - | * encourage him to learn with his peers | + | * concrete-operational period - when learning is facilitated through an opportunity to ask **questions** and get **explanations** which allow learner to mentally manipulate information. |
| - | * encourage him to learn for himself, but always | + | |
| - | * respect his current stage in cognitive development and not make forced steps forward. | + | |
| What should also be taken into consideration is that although all children go through the same steps during their development, that do it at different rates. Educational process should therefore be more **focused on individuals and small groups** within a class than to the class as a whole unit. | What should also be taken into consideration is that although all children go through the same steps during their development, that do it at different rates. Educational process should therefore be more **focused on individuals and small groups** within a class than to the class as a whole unit. | ||
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