‘One of the earliest self-expressive and communicative activities children engage in is drawing. The act of drawing is spontaneous and universally enjoyed by children. As a young child proudly presents his/her squiggly lines, irregular shapes, and colour patches, how are we to make sense of them?’ (Author unknown, 2014, Pg.8) This question will be referred to in relation to Piaget’s cognitive development theory. This theory depicts that there are four stages in which “children actively construct knowledge as they manipulate and explore their world”. (Berk, 2012, Pg.19) These stages are; sensory motor stage, pre-operational stage, formal operational stage and concrete operational stage. (Berk, 2012, Pg.19) Berk explains that children’s drawing development progresses in three phases: scribbles, first representational stage and more realistic drawings. (Berk, 2012 Pg.310) This essay will explain the connection between children’s mental development in relation to drawing at the more realistic drawings phase, focusing on the concrete operational stage of Piaget’s cognitive development theory. The more realistic phase of drawing is described by Berk as children creating more complex drawings. It is in this phase of drawing that children’s development in logical perception is increased. Throughout this phase children enhance their “depth cues, such as overlapping objects, smaller size for distant than for near objects, diagonal placement, and converging lines.” (Berk, 2012, Pg.310) According to Piaget’s cognitive development theory, children aged approximately 8 to 12 years of age emerge into the concrete operational stage. (Golomb, 2004, Pg.109) During this stage children’s cognitive development becomes more logical, flexible and o... ... middle of paper ... ...ngs. This article focused on the connection between Piaget’s concrete operational stage and the more realistic phase of drawing that experienced by children (approximately 8-12 years). By looking at the different concepts of Piaget’s theory, such as metacognition, reversibility and spatial reasoning the process of drawing can be related to the different components of children’s mental development. Works Cited Author unknown, (2014) Unit 4782 Education Foundations [unit outline] Retrieved from http://www.canberra.edu.au/learningsupport/file/2c983317-c716-4cf8-a7fb-32b7b94ddb88/1/4782%20Ed%20Foundations%20%28updated%29%20s1%2014.pdf Berk, L. (2012) Infants, Children and Adolescents [7th edition]. Illinois State University. Pearson. Golomb, C. (2004) The Child’s Creation of a Pictorial World. [2nd edition]. United States of America. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Development is always a major factor in children with intellectual or behavior issues. One test that is dynamic to this factor is the Profile of Creative Capabilities (PCA). The Profile of Creative Capabilities (PCA) includes two subtests (Drawing and Groups) and 2 rating scales (a house along with a School form) which are purported to measure 'creative capabilities, domain-relevant abilities, creativeness-relevant abilities, and intrinsic task motivation of scholars between your age range of 5- and 14-11' (examiner's manual, p. 5). Enter test includes eight stimuli with instructions for that child to make a picture. To encourage an innovative element towards the task, the kid is particularly expected to 'draw an image that nobody else would think of' (examiner's manual, p. 5).
Piaget believed that children in this stage experience two kinds of phenomena: pretend play and Egocentrism. Pretend play is the ability to perform mental operations using symbols. Egocentrism is the inability to perceive things from a different point of view. For example, a child covering his own eyes, because he believes that if he can’t see someone, then they can’t see him as well. When a child is seven to eleven years old, it is in the concrete operational stage. At this point, Piaget believed that children are able to grasp the concept of conservation. Conservation is the principle that mass and volume remain the same despite the change in forms of objects. For example, children at this age are mentally capable of pouring a liquid in different types of containers. Piaget also believed that at this age a child is capable of understanding different mathematical transformations. At the age of 12, children reach the Formal Operation stage, the final stage in Piaget’s stages of Cognitive Development. This is the
I chose to read and comment on Barbara Kiefer’s “Envisioning Experience: The Potential of Picture Books.” Kiefer’s main point in writing this essay was to get the message across that children enjoy picture books that allow them to identify and make connections with the characters or the plots, and that while reading and analyzing the pictures, they gain a better sense of aesthetics and how to interpret them.
Cognitive development is an important area of development during middle to late childhood. According to Piaget's theory, the ages between 7 and 11 are referred to as the concrete operational stage. The text describes children at this stage
Piaget’s theory is developed from the idea that the child constructs their knowledge individually whereas Vygotsky argued that children develop tools of learning by communicating with more knowledgeable others (O. Lourenco 2012). Piaget suggested that children develop through a series of four stages in their thinking – the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational stages each of which causes broad changes in the child’s intelligence structure and their logic (reference). These four structures are mental operations which are applied to anything in the child’s world these mental operations are referred to as schemas which grow and change from one stage to the next (book). Vygotsky had very different idea on this subject although they both agreed that the child is the active constructor of their own knowledge
For this paper I have decided to write about someone imaginary to associate with Piaget’s Cognitive Development. The reason that I have chosen to write about someone imaginary is because I have not seen every of the stages of cognitive development in someone I know and I do not remember all of mine, so I feel that it would be in my better interest to write about an imaginary person. I will be addressing the following concepts on Piaget’s Cognitive Development: Scheme, Assimilation, Accommodation, Tertiary circular reaction, Object Permanence, Symbolic function substage, Animistic thinking, Intuitive thought substage, Conservation, Seriation, Transitivity, and Hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
It was an exciting time where children appeared to be absorbed in creating their maps, looking outdoors to check they were creating it correctly, and using the photographs they had taken on the camera. The children often linked their own personal thoughts to the objects they were drawing outside, and a wide range of language emerged. For example Henry was drawing the daffodils and discussed with is peer how he has lots in his garden, and he liked the smell. Ollie discussed with henry how he has also seen the daffodils in church
Children’s processing of information is elementary and so the “copying” of pictures in one’s head is just a crude system of percepti...
“The influence of Piaget’s ideas in developmental psychology has been enormous. He changed how people viewed the child’s world and their methods of studying children. He was an inspiration to many who came after and took up his ideas. Piaget's ideas have generated a huge amount of research which has increased our understanding of cognitive development.” (McLeod 2009). Piaget purposed that we move through stages of cognitive development. He noticed that children showed different characteristics throughout their childhood development. The four stages of development are The Sensorimotor stage, The Preoperational Stage, The Concrete operational stage and The Formal operational stage.
Both Piaget and Vygotsky agreed that children's cognitive development took place in stages. (Jarvis, Chandler 2001 P.149). However they were distinguished by different styles of thinking. Piaget was the first t reveal that children reason and think differently at different periods in their lives. He believed that all children progress through four different and very distinct stages of cognitive development. This theory is known as Piaget’s Stage Theory because it deals with four stages of development, which are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational. (Ginsburg, Opper 1979 P. 26).
The main concept of Jean Piaget’s theory is that he believes in children being a scientist by experimenting things and making observations with their senses. This approach emphasizes on how children’s ability can make sense of their immediate everyday surroundings. Piaget also proposed that children perceived to four stages based on maturation and experiences. Piaget’s theory was guided by assumptions of how a learner interacts with their own environment and how they integrate new knowledge and information into existing knowledge. Briefly, he proposed that children are active learners who construct knowledge from their own environment. They learn through assimilation and accommodation in complex cognitive development. Furthermore, interaction with physical and social environments is the key and development occurs in stages. An example of Jean Piaget theory carried out in the classroom is that giving children a great deal of hands-on practice, by using concrete props and visual aids. Taking into consideration and being sensitive to the possibility that
As children’s literature matured, so did the books. Illustrations were first made with woodcuts or on wood blocks that were colored by hand. By the late 1800s, printing had evolved and illustrations became mor...
He believed that children’s minds had to mature and could not take on certain tasks until they are mentally developed enough to do so. The first stage he determined was the sensory motor stage, which occurs in children from birth to age two. In this stage, Piaget’s ideas are focused on how children see things and interpret it. In the book Children and Adolescents, Elkind explained how Piaget began to understand this stage by observing his child, Jacqueline. “To illustrate, Piaget observed that when he held a cigarette case in front of his daughter and then dropped it, she did not follow the trajectory of the case but continued looking at his hand” (p. 18). Towards the end of this stage, Piaget began to see improvement in the way his child reads different situations. Jacqueline was able to discover where the objects went when Piaget removed them from clear
The Critique of Piaget's Theories Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) was a constructivist theorist. He saw children as constructing their own world, playing an active part in their own development. Piaget’s insight opened up a new window into the inner working of the mind and as a result he carried out some remarkable studies on children that had a powerful influence on theories of child thought. This essay is going to explain the main features and principles of the Piagetian theory and then provide criticism against this theory. Cognitive development refers to way in which a person’s style of thinking changes with age.
A child’s drawing can tell so much about what they are thinking and feeling about their surroundings. They see things differently from adults and teens because when they are drawing or doing some sort of art they are not told that it is a “bad picture” or what ever they are doing is “not right.” They don’t have a limit upon their thoughts and ideas, but when they grow up, they do. Starting from the first day of school, they are taught about the wrong things and the right things. As we grow older there are more classes that have right and wrong answers to a question like, for example, math.