Sunday, May 19, 2013

What are some questions you could ask Piaget about his theory if you could meet him in person?

Of course, my questions would be different than yours, but I would ask why Piaget was interested in children.  Much of his early work was with water snails, and it's not a logical jump between studying mollusks and children.  Piaget also looked at stages of development.  I would ask him why he created these stages and if they are concrete, or if children can move between one stage and the next.  I would ask him what his opinion was of social constructivists such as Vygotsky and if his theories discounted the role that others play in a child's life.  I would also ask him if he saw children's minds as a "blank slate" at birth or if the children had the capacity to learn certain things and that this capacity was unlocked at certain periods in a child's life.  I would also ask him what he thought of children that we regard as "prodigies" who can learn complex material at an early age.  

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