Piaget Bruner And Vygotsky. Nevertheless each agrees that cognitive development is strongly tied to the process of constructing knowledge in a social context. Vygotsky s zone of proximal development zpd is similar to montessori s planes of development and piaget gives each developmental stage a name sensorimotor preoperational formal operations.
Piaget focuses on active learning while vygotsky focuses on social interaction and bruner focuses on environment. Piaget and bruner s theory both supports the learner in activating prior knowledge whereas vygotsky theory relies on the role of others. Bruner like vygotsky emphasized the social nature of learning citing that other people should help a child develop skills through the process.
It is obvious that there are similarities between the theory of piaget and bruner but an important difference is that in bruner s theory the development of the learning processes is not something immovable since although a certain stage can dominate in a concrete evolutionary moment in.
For piaget the capacity for abstract thinking begins around 11. Lev vygotsky jean piaget and jerome bruner have emphasized cognitive development as being intimately linked to the brain s construction of knowledge within a social context. Bruner like vygotsky emphasized the social nature of learning citing that other people should help a child develop skills through the process. Both piaget and vygotsky are two constructivist theorists although the latter is considered the main precursor of social constructivism.