My Early Childhood Education class was assigned a project where we have to research the numerous theorists that study child development. I picked Mr. Piaget to study, and hearing him speak about his theories and ideas, it brings in a whole new set of ideas to research about. He seems like he was an incredible man, and you don't get to hear many philosophers speak about their own theories. Thank you for uploading this 4-part documentary. It helps a lot.
It's very interesting and engaging. I've enjoyed it. You have to appreciate the fact of how much work has to be done to build up a theory. Thanks for sharing.
Ha ! Piaget, sur lequel on a ramé, un psychologue plus qu'intéressant avec un matériel très simple IL DOIT ETRE CONSERVE dans les écoles normales (mieux que certains "psychologues nouveaux" qui sont comme la "cuisine nouvelle"... très maigre souvent! Merci pour ces entretiens!
I wonder how these stages compare to the type of lessons the children get in school. Katherine is good at volume but would she be able to do it had she not been taught it somewhere else? When she arranged the sticks in the stair formation I thought she was doing a pretty good job. When the interviewer covered up the sticks and asked her how many I misplaced the number. Practice and drill. The fact that the younger children could not calculate volume might be more impressive if at the beginning the children were shown how many blocks were in the first "house". The children said it was "enough" but even the interviewer was afraid of knocking the blocks over. That was a distraction. The older children would have been exposed to how many cubes make up a block else where and applied their experience during the test. So to be on an even footing the younger children need to be exposed to it during the experiment. Otherwise how do I know this is not just a test of the kind of explanation the children had been exposed to? As far as the liquid volume tests conical soft drink cups have us all accommodated. Calculating the volume of amphorae would be beyond most everyone in the modern day. That is a stage of cognitive development that builds on previous knowledge. So when he says that little girl was "between stages" how is it that the discrete stages are used as observation of a continuous process? I was impressed also by the fact that he has a reputation for having thrown away the books. He does have a bent for empiricism one cannot deny but I giggled when I saw his desk. All he needed was some photographs and yarn and the nativists would dance on his grave. Clearly a great man and that little shot at Chomsky would have made him the guest of honor at many a party.
+Drake Dorosh yes i bet 12yo girl already been taught at school about the concept of volume. if the 10 yo boy get the same exposure i think he can grasp the concept of volume as well. and if an illiterate adult get the same experiment probably he will fail also
***** Since I watched this the notion of stages wasn't really useful to me but there still is something to take away from it. People say "oh she's too young to understand ". I used to think that was nurture - they hadn't bothered to explain stuff for the same reason. On the other hand with my son I notice him doing something well and it came out of the blue.
My Early Childhood Education class was assigned a project where we have to research the numerous theorists that study child development. I picked Mr. Piaget to study, and hearing him speak about his theories and ideas, it brings in a whole new set of ideas to research about. He seems like he was an incredible man, and you don't get to hear many philosophers speak about their own theories. Thank you for uploading this 4-part documentary. It helps a lot.
Thank you for posting the link. It is amazing to hear him and see how he actually conducted and interperted his research.
thanks for sharing , I learned a lot by listening to Piaget talking about his theory himself
It's very interesting and engaging. I've enjoyed it.
You have to appreciate the fact of how much work has to be done to build up a theory.
Thanks for sharing.
his office makes me appreciate my computer
Ha ! Piaget, sur lequel on a ramé, un psychologue plus qu'intéressant avec un matériel très simple IL DOIT ETRE CONSERVE dans les écoles normales (mieux que certains "psychologues nouveaux" qui sont comme la "cuisine nouvelle"... très maigre souvent!
Merci pour ces entretiens!
I like his office.
Hes tha baws
Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for sharing, it helps me to introduce to his theory.
Thanks for posting!
all these psychologists with pipe and paper
@micheals1992 yes you need to read that many books to come out with a theory! hahahahaaa...i just noticed that indeed the office is soooo messy!!
I wonder how these stages compare to the type of lessons the children get in school. Katherine is good at volume but would she be able to do it had she not been taught it somewhere else? When she arranged the sticks in the stair formation I thought she was doing a pretty good job. When the interviewer covered up the sticks and asked her how many I misplaced the number. Practice and drill.
The fact that the younger children could not calculate volume might be more impressive if at the beginning the children were shown how many blocks were in the first "house". The children said it was "enough" but even the interviewer was afraid of knocking the blocks over. That was a distraction. The older children would have been exposed to how many cubes make up a block else where and applied their experience during the test. So to be on an even footing the younger children need to be exposed to it during the experiment. Otherwise how do I know this is not just a test of the kind of explanation the children had been exposed to?
As far as the liquid volume tests conical soft drink cups have us all accommodated. Calculating the volume of amphorae would be beyond most everyone in the modern day. That is a stage of cognitive development that builds on previous knowledge. So when he says that little girl was "between stages" how is it that the discrete stages are used as observation of a continuous process?
I was impressed also by the fact that he has a reputation for having thrown away the books. He does have a bent for empiricism one cannot deny but I giggled when I saw his desk. All he needed was some photographs and yarn and the nativists would dance on his grave. Clearly a great man and that little shot at Chomsky would have made him the guest of honor at many a party.
+Drake Dorosh yes i bet 12yo girl already been taught at school about the concept of volume. if the 10 yo boy get the same exposure i think he can grasp the concept of volume as well. and if an illiterate adult get the same experiment probably he will fail also
***** Since I watched this the notion of stages wasn't really useful to me but there still is something to take away from it. People say "oh she's too young to understand ". I used to think that was nurture - they hadn't bothered to explain stuff for the same reason. On the other hand with my son I notice him doing something well and it came out of the blue.
oooh fantastic
dude hoards books
(Age) (Environment) (Cognitive_Stage)
1. Same Same Same
2. Same Different Same/Diff
3. Different Same Same/Diff
4. Different Different Same/Diff