Jean Piaget

“All knowledge is tied to action” – Jean Piaget.

Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland in 1896 and died in 1980. He was a trained biologist who had a constructavist approach. Piaget covered cognitive development throughout his lifetime.

Piaget’s Key Principles:

1.       Children’s thoughts process cognitively differently from adults.

2.       Children also actively construct their own knowledge.

Piaget also said that there are three processes’ that children adapt his/her mental structures.

Piaget’s active learner has been described as ‘the lone scientists’. He also said that children go through different stages of learning.

1.       Sensory motor period (0-2 years)

-          Examples of 1) when a child is sucking or grasping.

-          Major development within this stage.

2.       Pre Operational stage (2-7 years)

3.       Concrete operational stage (7-11 years)

4.       Formal operational stage (11-12 years above)

Critiques.

Even though Piaget is in fact powerful to many people throughout the years that he had been doing research he was heavily criticized by many people. Critics leading arguments was that Piaget basically undervalued children’s abilities. Another criticism about Piaget’s work is that he used his own children for his experiments so they thought it was bias.

However, even though Piaget had criticism throughout his life. He is highly influential throughout the UK.

I find it truly fascinating while researching into Piaget work and even though I agree on the criticism’s and that he only used his own children for his experiments I feel that what he talked out when It came to The four stages of development that Jean Piaget spoke the truth and I agree on it.