Piaget
-Children construct their understanding from involvement and interaction.
-Broke down into age related stages.
-Described a child's learning as their schema.
-Studied his own children to find out how they knew what they did.
-Swiss
Vygotsky
-Children socially construct their knowledge.
-Culture, language, and and social interaction are directly responsible for development.
-Values and customs dictate what is most important to learn.
-Referred to the zone of proximal development as where learning occurs.
Children learn from experts in society i.e. parents, relatives, and other role models.
-Russian
-Theories of cognitive development.
-Children are active learners.
-European Psychologists.
-Born in 1896.
-influential building blocks of cognitive theory.
Piaget Vygotsky Venn Diagram
(author: Summer Hedrick)
