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This is a 7 page paper that provides an overview of the childhood development theories of Jean Piaget. It broadly examines the social, cognitive, and emotional/moral dimensions of human development. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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human development by studying the fundamental differences between the mental and emotional processes of children and adults with a variety of diagnostic assessment tools including carefully structured interviews and experiments,
and came to conclusions that directly contradicted the prevailing viewpoints of the time. Until this point, Behaviorists such as Watson and most other prominent psychologists in the West believed that
children developed along lines determined almost entirely by outside circumstances, such as the influence of their parents and teachers, as well as the particulars of the environment in which they
are reared. For Piaget, however, hands-on learning, or learning techniques which involve direct personal interaction with the subject material in a cooperative and responsive manner, was of vital importance to
human development, because it provided the only means by which development could be initiated. The developmental theories of Piaget are based around a
simple idea: that children, to a large extent, develop themselves rather than passively integrating knowledge and instruction from adults and other authorities (Wood, Smith, & Grossniklaus, 2001). Like the Constructionists
who would later expand upon his work and develop an entire sub-discipline of psychology, Piaget believed that knowledge was acquired through the process of creativity and interaction, and that this
model was applicable to all "types" of knowledge, including social, cognitive, and emotional knowledge. This same creativity and interaction is the very reason why the process of hands-on learning is
so critical to education in the view of Piaget: by constantly interacting with their environment in new and challenging ways, a child continually reconstructs his or her social, cognitive, and
emotional views of reality to become a more complex, mature, and well-developed individual (Wood et al., 2001). This paragraph demonstrates the application
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