CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The concrete operational stage is the third stage in Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development. In this stage, children gain the abilities of conservation of number, area, volume, and orientation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The concrete operational phase centers around three elements : Conservation and reversibility: Conservation the understanding that objects can change in size, volume, or appearance but essentially remain the same.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conservation is the concept of things staying the same even though other elements change, which is based on rational thinking. 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-4: -The concrete operational child is able to make use of logical principles in solving problems involving the physical world. For example, the child can understand principles of cause and effect, size, and distance.

Detailed explanation-5: -Conservation is the understanding that something stays the same in quantity even though its appearance changes. This can apply to aspects such as volume, number, area etc. To be more technical conservation is the ability to understand that redistributing material does not affect its mass, number, volume or length.