CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Equilibration involves the assimilation of information to fit with an individual’s own existing mental schemas and the accommodation of information by adapting it their way of thinking. For example, a child loves the soups that their family eats on a regular basis.

Detailed explanation-2: -When the child encounters a horse, they might assimilate this information and immediately call the animal a dog. The process of accommodation then allows the child to adapt the existing schema to incorporate the knowledge that some four-legged animals are horses.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Piaget, development is driven by the process of equilibration. Equilibration encompasses assimilation (i.e., people transform incoming information so that it fits within their existing thinking) and accommodation (i.e, people adapt their thinking to incoming information).

Detailed explanation-4: -“When a child learns the word for dog, they start to call all four-legged animals dogs. This is assimilation. People around them will say, no, that’s not a dog, it’s a cat. The schema for dog then gets modified to restrict it to only certain four-legged animals.