Cognitive Development
\nDoes our current understanding about the brain inform our understanding of both cognitive development and classroom practices? Using your reading on cognitive development, compare and contrast Piaget and Vygotsky by answering the following:
\n\u2022 Did Piaget distinguish competence from performance?
\n\u2022 What evidence is there that cognitive development actually occurs in stages?
\n\u2022 Does Piaget pay close attention to social\/cultural influences? Why or why not?
\n\u2022 What are some of the educational implications of Vygotsky\u2019s belief that our thought and intelligence comes from our society and culture (through the internalization of culturally constructed mental tools)?
\n\u2022 What are the implications of both models for education?
\nWhich viewpoint do you endorse and why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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