CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget’s theory describes children’s language as “symbolic, ” allowing them to venture beyond the “here and now” and to talk about such things as the past, the future, people, feelings and events. During this time, children’s language often shows instances of of what Piaget termed “animism” and “egocentrism.”

Detailed explanation-2: -The preoperational stage occurs from 2 to 6 years of age, and is the secondstage in Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Throughout most of the preoperational stage, a child’s thinking isself-centered, or egocentric.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Piaget, logical egocentrism is due to the fact that “the child sees everything from his own point of view, it is because he believes all the world to think like himself.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget placed acquisition of language within the context of a child’s mental or cognitive development. He argued that a child has to understand a concept before s/he can acquire the particular language form which expresses that concept.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, suggests that children’s intelligence undergoes changes as they grow. Cognitive development in children is not only related to acquiring knowledge, children need to build or develop a mental model of their surrounding world (Miller, 2011).