Stages Of Jean Piaget's Approach To Child Development

Learning is knowledge which is obtained through studying, being taught or through experiences. Studies and research have mainly focused on learning through early years to childhood, up until adolescence. However, nowadays research and studies have found that the process of learning is continuous and it commences from birth and continues until death. We learn to gain attention, eat, crawl and to walk as babies, later on our bodies start to become more functional as we develop into children. There are different ways of learning both formally and informally: as part of a group, such as in a classroom setting, one-to-one, such as in a mentoring or coaching arrangement, and self-learning. Throughout our lifetime learning takes place unexpectedly from gaining information, new experiences as well as from our perceptions such as reading a newspaper, talking with colleagues and friends, unexpected experiences etc. Furthermore people learn differently at different times in their lives and in different circumstances.

The way people learn has been explained and demonstrated in a vast range of theories. Over the years theories have been developed to examine the stages involved in learning however, this depends on the type of learning the theory describes. The four learning

Jean Piaget was the first theories to study the cognitive approach. The role of maturation, simply growing up was his particular insight. He believe children are unable to undertake certain tasks unless they are at physologically mature to do so. Piaget proposed that childrens thinking does not develop smoothly until they are at a certain point in life. At 18 months, The age of 7, 11 or 12 he saw these transitions taking place. This means he believed before these ages children are unable to understand certain aspects no matter how bright they may be, this following belief has been used for scheduling the school