Piaget's Points

Piaget!


http://www.funderstanding.com/piaget.cfm
this website discusses Piaget's history and goes into detail of his four stages of development.

1. Sensorimotor stage (birth - 2 years old)
2. Preoperational stage (ages 2-7)--
3. Concrete operations (ages 7-11)--
4. Formal operations (beginning at ages 11-15)

MY THOUGHTS ON PIAGET

I tend to disagree with some of Piagets thoughts. This could be because i tend to agree with Vygotsky more. I struggle to see how we can place students learning abilities into stages when it is quite obvious that people learn in their own time. Why is it that Piaget is so famous? i'm sure many other people came up with learning strategies. But is Piaget more famous becasue he actually gave people the oportunity to categorise learning types. This is an issue to research more on. Thats not to say that Piaget doesn't offer some extremely valid points on teaching methods as well as learning strategies.