Piaget's Education Theories

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This report examines the place that Piaget's theories should have in the modern classroom, particularly during the stage of middle childhood, the potential practical applications of his work at this educational stage, and the potential educational pitfalls of ignoring his groundbreaking ideas during this time.

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"Piaget's theories have two major components: the process of "coming to know" and the stages that humans pass through in order to acquire this ability (Huitt & Hummel, 1998, para. 3). Because of his initial training as a biologist, Piaget continually related his psychological theories back to biological bases. Indeed, he stated in an interview in 1969 that "I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology" (Pyche, 2). His theories about the process of learning clearly reflect this bias. Thus, intelligence is reflected through adaptation to the environment and is controlled through mental processes called schemas. Schemas can be either congenital, such as reflexes, or constructed. Through schemas, a person builds a mental representation of the world, and uses them to assimilate with or accommodate to the environment around them (Huitt & Hummel, 1998, para. 5-8)."

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