Piaget Learning Stages. Learning theories in plain english vol. The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire construct and use it.
10 95 9 95. It is a means of guiding teachers and other educators to guide students through their cognitive learning experiences. Swiss psychologist jean piaget took the intellectual functioning of adults as the central phenomenon to be explained and wanted to know how an adult acquired the ability to think logically and to draw valid conclusions about the world from evidence.
Piaget s theory rests on the fundamental notion that the child develops through stages until arriving at a stage of thinking.
Piaget 1936 was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive development. Piaget believed that children take an active role in the learning process acting much like little scientists as they perform experiments make observations and learn about the world. As kids interact with the world around them they continually add new knowledge build upon existing knowledge and adapt previously held ideas to accommodate. Piaget s stages suggest that kids actively participate and construct their knowledge.