CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -How children engage with the environment may also play a part in their ability to understand the world around them. Researchers have found, for example, that children tend to struggle more with understanding the principle of conservation when they are passive observers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Per Piaget’s theory, conservation, or logical thinking, should be apparent during the concrete operational stage and the maturing age is between the ages of seven and eleven (McLeod, 2010).

Detailed explanation-3: -The preoperational stage occurs from 2 to 6 years of age, and is the secondstage in Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Throughout most of the preoperational stage, a child’s thinking isself-centered, or egocentric.

Detailed explanation-4: -Conservation. Conservation is related to centration. It’s the understanding that a quantity stays the same even if you change the size, shape, or container it’s in. Piaget found that most children can’t understand this concept before 5 years old.

Detailed explanation-5: -Specifically, Piaget determined that children of this age group lack the concept of conservation or possess an inability to understand that quantities remain constant even when they change shape (Myers, 2014). This limitation in thought development has key implications for teachers of students under the age of seven.