Kathlen Joy S.

Ferriol

BSED SSTU 2101

Assignment No. 3

Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory and Vygotsky’s

Sociocultural Theory of Cognitive Development

Piaget stage theory has been influencial globally, validating a number of ideas
regarding growth and development in many cultures and society.It plays a very
important role in our lives. It help us to develop strategies to improve our learnings.Both
theory has a key process.The key process of piaget theory are the
accommodation,assimulation,operations,conservation,classification,hypotherical
deductie reasoning. In vygotsky theory the key process is the zone of proximal
development, language , dialouge, tools of the culture. Piaget define language has
minimal role while vygotsky define language as a powerful role. In terms of teaching
applications piaget define teacher as facilitator provide a support for children to
discover a new knowledge, while, vygotsky define it as teacher as facilitator establish
many oppurtunities for children to learn and to be more skilled. As we can see both
theories has different point of view in many aspects . Both Piaget and Vygotsky, I
believe, presented educators with valuable perspectives on child cognitive
development. Piaget argued that children grow cognitively through maturation,
discovery techniques, and some social transmissions such as absorption and
adaptation. In terms of the two cognitive theories, I'd rather use Vygotskian ideas in my
teaching. Structuring, co-constructed knowledge, discourse, and cultural instruments, in
my opinion, are all crucial components of a student's knowledge acquisition. We provide
kids with relevant learning techniques that they absorb and apply later by assisting them
in their zone of proximal growth. Many educational techniques, such as discovery
learning with an emphasis on action and play, were advocated by Piaget. However,
Vygotsky's view of cognitive growth included the necessity of social interactions and a
co-constructed knowledge base.