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Piaget

Piaget. Development 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 Piaget Taken from thinkexist.com.

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Piaget

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  1. Piaget Development and Cognition

  2. “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 Piaget Taken from thinkexist.com

  3. Essential Factors in Cognitive Development • Physical Environment • Maturation • Social Influences • Equilibration

  4. Volunteer?

  5. Disequilibrium …is the first step to learning something new

  6. The Fundamental Processes • Adapatation= maintain balance • Assimilation =unbutton • Accomodation= gym time • Reflective Abstraction = What just happened?

  7. Knowledge always involves interference!!!

  8. And social interactions…

  9. Sensorimotor (0-1) Schemes and relationships Opps… Got your nose!!!

  10. Object Permanence

  11. Preoperational (2-7) Magical thinking… does not differentiate between reality, possibility and necessity. Egocentric= The World according to ME!

  12. Who wants candy?

  13. Some other experiments…

  14. Concrete (7-14) Whatgoesup must come down. A=B=C, Conservation, Reversability, Transformation, Classification, Seriation

  15. Reversability

  16. How did she do that?

  17. 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?

  18. The Hypothetical

  19. Educational Implications ?

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

  21. 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”

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