EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE Piaget's theory

 

 

Piaget assumed that teaching occurs "inside out". For him, education aims to promote the intellectual, emotional and social growth of the child, but considering that growth is the result of a natural evolutionary processes. Educational action, therefore, must be structured to encourage personal construction processes by which growth operates. Discovery activities must be thus priority. This does not mean that children have to learn alone. On the contrary, one of the basic characteristic of Piaget's educational model is precisely highlight how social interactions horizontal. 

 

The implications of Piaget's thinking on learning affect the constructivist view of learning. The general principles of Piagetian thinking about learning are: 

 

1. The educational objectives must also be child-centered, from student activities. 

 

2. The contents, are not seen as ends but as instruments of natural evolutionary development. 

 

3. The basic principle of the Piagetian approach is the primacy of the method of discovery. 

 

4. Learning is an internal construction process. 

 

5. Learning depends on the level of development of the subject. 

 

6. Learning is a process of cognitive reorganization. 

 

7. The development of learning are important cognitive conflict and cognitive contradictions. 

 

8. Social interaction promotes learning. 

 

9. The physical experience involves an awareness of the reality that facilitates problem solving and promotes learning. 

 

10. Learning experiences should be structured so that it favors cooperation, collaboration and exchange of views in the joint pursuit of knowledge (interactive learning).