CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Equilibriation. 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: -Assimilation of knowledge occurs when a learner encounters a new idea, and must ‘fit’ that idea into what they already know. Think of this as filling existing containers. Accommodation of knowledge is more substantial, requiring the learner to reshape those containers. You can think of these containers as ‘schema.

Detailed explanation-3: -Equilibrium occurs when a child balances between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ – between perceptions and experience and when his schemas can deal with most new information through assimilation.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -If the “new situation” is in balance with the existing schema then that balance is referred to by Piaget as “equilibration” in that the existing knowledge base is working. For example, using a similar one mentioned above, learning a new language that uses the same alphabet as your first language would work for you.