CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -“When a child learns the word for dog, they start to call all four-legged animals dogs. This is assimilation.

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: -In child development, examples of assimilation might include an infant learning sensorimotor skills. As the child learns new ways to move and pick up objects, they incorporate this knowledge into their current worldview. Another example is a child learning math in school.

Detailed explanation-4: -Accommodation means existing structures change to accommodate to the new information. This dual process, assimilation-accommodation, enables the child to form schema. Equilibration involves the person striking a balance between himself and the environment, between assimilation and accomodation.

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.