Piaget and Education Summary

The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget who had an unique investigative technique related to learning theory compared to usual tradition had an unbelievable effect on American education. In his opinion, all humans have an instinct for figuring out how the world works. As long as our mind can grasp the incidents we notice, we are at equilibrium. The critical point is that we can’t expand our scheme about a subject if we don’t have pre-existing data about it. Therefore, educators should present new information that rests on students’ prior knowledge. In addition, new information should be enough interesting to be motivating but not overpowering. Otherwise, the learning will not occur since the new data can not attach itself to what the learner already knows.

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