CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget divided children’s cognitive development in four stages, each of the stages represent a new way of thinking and understanding the world. He called them (1) sensorimotor intelligence, (2) preoperational thinking, (3) concrete operational thinking, and (4) formal operational thinking.

Detailed explanation-2: -Formal Operational Stage Adolescents who reach this fourth stage of intellectual development–usually at age 11-plus–are able to use symbols related to abstract concepts, such as algebra and science. They can think about things in systematic ways, come up with theories, and consider possibilities.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is this? However, children in the formal operational stage will often be more inventive. For example, they might say they would put it in their hand so they could see around corners. The above video shows a typical response of a young child to the third eye question.

Detailed explanation-4: -Piaget’s Stages of Play According to Piaget, children engage in types of play that reflect their level of cognitive development: functional play, constructive play, symbolic/fantasy play, and games with rules (Johnson, Christie & Wardle 2005).