Assignment:
Readings the following chapters are given below:
Cognitive Development Piaget and Vygotsky, Cognitive Development: Information Processing
Cognitive Development Activities
Prior to completing this assignment, read your textbook and read the Piaget's Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology, On Major Developments in Preschoolers' Imagination, and The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture: Working Paper No. 5 articles.
Also, review
Final Project instructions for creating the proposal, and review the videos: Play: A Vygotskian approach and Piaget's Stages of Development (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRF27F2bn-A) . The purpose of this assignment is for you to continue working on elements that will become part of your Community Center Proposal Final Project. You will be creating three activities that address cognitive development in the age groups assigned. These will become part of the infant room, early childhood room, and adolescent room of your center.
Using Piaget's, Vygotsy's, and/or Information processing theories of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying activities for the assigned rooms that promotes cognitive development for children and adolescents. The activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of the age group and must be clearly tied to specific theory. You must use at least one credible source. Your activities might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, egocentrism, or conservation for early childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence. Table your textbook will be useful in completing this activity.
Focus on the primary developmental tasks of each age period. For each of the three activities, write a paragraph that addresses the following:
- Describe the activity in some detail (provide more than just the name of the activity).
- Identify the specific concept from cognitive development theory that supports the use of this activity.
- Identify how the activity enhances cognitive development in the specific age group.
Here are two examples providing you a model of how to approach this assignment and how to build the elements of the rooms in your community center.
Discussion
Compare and Contrast the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky
Prior to completing this discussion, read your textbook and Piaget's Enduring
Contribution to Developmental Psychology article, and watch the Play: A Vygotskian approach and Piaget's Stages of Development Jean Piaget is probably the most influential theorist in the cognitive development realm. His work has informed American educational practices since the early 1900s. Another key cognitive theorist in the realm is Lev Vygotsky. Interestingly, Vygotsky and Piaget were contemporaries (both were born in 1896), but for many years, Piaget's theory dominated. The fact that Vygotsky died at age 37, while Piaget lived to be 84, might be part of that explanation. But Vygotsky's ideas gained traction in the 1980s when educators began to question long held Piagetian ideas. Nevertheless, both theories are important to the study of cognitive development. In your initial post of 300 words minimum, Provide a brief overview of Piaget's and Vygotsky's child and adolescent cognitive developmental theories.
Compare and contrast these theories as they relate to child and adolescent development by identifying at least one commonality in the two theories and two major conceptual differences (Table your textbook will be useful here).
Determine which of the two theories you most support and provide a rationale for your choice.
Your discussion post must use at least one credible source.
Readings:
Physical Development: Motor Development
By Angela Oswalt Morelli