CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Conservation refers to a logical thinking ability that allows a person to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container, shape, or apparent size, according to the psychologist Jean Piaget.

Detailed explanation-2: -Most children will enter the concrete operational stage between the age of 7 to 11. During this stage, children should have mastered the following skills: Conservation. Reversibility.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conservation, in child development, is a logical thinking ability first studied by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. In short, being able to conserve means knowing that a quantity doesn’t change if it’s been altered (by being stretched, cut, elongated, spread out, shrunk, poured, etc).

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Conservation Example Upon pouring the contents of one glass into another, taller and thinner glass, the child should say that the water is still the same amount between the two glasses.