CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Based on Piaget’s stage-based theory of cognitive development, Kohlberg (1966) proposed a cognitive-developmental theory of children’s gender development.

Detailed explanation-2: -Much of Piaget’s interest in the cognitive development of children was inspired by his observations of his own nephew and daughter. These observations reinforced his budding hypothesis that children’s minds were not merely smaller versions of adult minds.

Detailed explanation-3: -Piaget understands moral development as a construction process, i.e. the interplay of action and thought builds moral concepts. Kohlberg on the other hand, describes development as a process of discovering universal moral principles. In the first case autonomy means allowing this process to unfold independently.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, suggests that children’s intelligence undergoes changes as they grow. Cognitive development in children is not only related to acquiring knowledge, children need to build or develop a mental model of their surrounding world (Miller, 2011).