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An 8 page research paper that examines Piaget's period of childhood development. The writer also offers practical application of this knowledge mainly as it is applied in Montessori classrooms. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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been acquired. They develop from being a totally helpless little bundle that doesnt have the motor ability to control his or her own head to become a child at the
age of five who can communicate, run, jump and perform relatively complex motor skills. However, the work of educational innovators, such as Maria Montessori, and child psychologists, such as Jean
Piaget, have shown conclusively that a young childs mind operates in ways that are inherently different from those of an adult. Piagets research divides the cognitive stages of development for children
into four distinct stages?sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete-operational, and formal-operational periods (Holme, 1972, p. 85). While each stage is qualitatively different from the other, the order of the stages is invariant?"the
child must complete the sensorimotor period before he can reach the pre-operational stage", etc. (p. 85). When Piaget would give lectures to American audiences, he was invariably asked what
motivated a child to move from one stage to the next and how could it be speeded up? Piaget felt that efforts to accelerate cognitive development were unwise, at
best, and possibly harmful (Holme, 1972, p. 87). Children go through each stage in order to have foundation to build upon for the next. Parents who wouldnt dream of expecting
a child to run, even before the babys learned how to crawl, try to teach their toddlers mathematics. Of course, part of this behavior on the part of parents is
due to the some of the latest research relative to cognitive development that stresses the importance of a stimulating environment in early childhood. A stimulating environment is crucial to early
childhood cognitive development Current scientific research indicates that a great deal of a childs critical brain development is completed before the age that children typically start kindergarten (Lindsey, 1998). Researcher
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