CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget’s constructivism theory was based on cognitive development and Vygotsky was based on social development. Hence, it becomes clear that constructivists such as Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky view learning as the process of meaning-making by active engagement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Similarities include inquiry teaching methods and students creating concepts built on existing knowledge that are relevant and meaningful. Differences include language development theory where thinking precedes language for cognitive constructivism and language precedes thinking for the theory of social constructivism.

Detailed explanation-3: -For Vygotsky, thought and language are initially separate systems from the beginning of life, merging at around three years of age, producing verbal thought (inner speech). For Vygotsky, cognitive development results from an internalization of language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Piaget rejected the idea that learning was the passive assimilation of given knowledge. Instead, he proposed that learning is a dynamic process comprising successive stages of adaption to reality during which learners actively construct knowledge by creating and testing their own theories of the world (1968, 8).