CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget also believed that as children learn, they strike a balance between the use of assimilation and accommodation. This process, known as equilibration, allows children to find a balance between applying their existing knowledge and adapting their behavior to new information.

Detailed explanation-2: -Piaget defined assimilation as the cognitive process of fitting new information into existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understanding. Overall beliefs and understanding of the world do not change as a result of the new information.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, “Fitting new information into existing schemes” is known as ‘Assimilation’ as assimilation refers to the: process of taking in information into our previously existing schemas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Piaget suggested that we understand the world around us by using schemas. A schema is a pattern of learning, linking perceptions, ideas and actions to make sense of the world. Piaget described it simply as the “way we see the world”.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Piaget, schemes are an individual’s generalized way of responding to the world. These schemes are methods of organization. New information is adapted into existing schemes by processes referred to as assimilation, accommodation and equilibration.