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... This will be made clearer after looking more closely at two theorists in particular, Jean Piaget versus Lev Vygotsky. Piaget is a cognitive development theorist while Vygotsky is a sociocultural theorist. ...
Piaget and Cognitive Development Theory
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was tantamount to being an activist to the extreme in his day. ...
Piaget・s own colleague said of him that although he appeared to prefer the scientific approach inherent in his work, he seemed to have an underlying desire to ：improve teaching methods by ．the official adoption of techniques better adapted to the mind of the child (Munari 1994). According to Piaget・s theory there are four stages of development: sensorimotor from birth to two years; preoperational from two to seven years; concrete operational from seven to eleven years and formal operational from eleven years through adulthood.
Piaget noted from his research that children・s cognitive development passed through a fixed sequence. ...
Clearly Piaget・s theory is based on his belief that learning is limited by the stage of development of the individual. ...
Lev Vygotsky
Born in 1896, Lev Vygotsky became a constructivist with a radical perspective that emphasizes the social environment as a facilitator of development and learning (Schunk, p. ...
On a more broad scale, the development of human functions is viewed by Vygotsky as their transition from their original lower mental functions form into higher mental functions form with differences between the tow being drawn along four major criteria: origins, structure, the way of functioning and the relation to other mental functions.
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