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An 8 page overview of the theories of Jean Piaget. The author delves into Piaget's theories about cognitive learning, particularly regarding the way very young infants learn. While Piaget was brilliant in many respects, subsequent work by such notables as Elizabeth Spelke proved him wrong in his beliefs that children under the age of two had no preconceived ideas about the way the world worked. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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in the field of child psychology is not surprising given his utter brilliance. Piaget published his first scientific paper when he was only ten years old and his career
as a whole spanned all the way to his death at the age of eighty-four (Papert, 1999). Papert (1999) notes that Piaget was responsible for the development of several
branches of psychology, the most notable of which were developmental psychology, cognitive theory, and genetic epistemology. Papert (1999) points out that even though Piaget himself was not an educational
reformer: "he championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for todays
education-reform movements" Piagets theories revolved around his recognition of that fact that infants relate to
their world in a manner which is essentially consistent between children of the same age group but distinctly different from the manner in which adults interact with their world (Papert,
1999). Very simply put, Piaget contended that children think differently than do adults (Papert, 1999). This is not to say that Piaget didnt recognize that children could learn
from their environment, however. Indeed, Piagets work reinforced the common perception that children learn through their observations and explorations of their world. In this respect they are the
same as adults. Piaget cautioned, however, that the process of theory formation for a child may be more important than the correctness of the theories themselves (Papert, 1999).
He emphasized that correcting a childs view on the way things work might do more harm than good, that:
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