Catherine Balderama BSED Eng.

1D
Activity: Theory Comparison

Areas Piaget Vygotsky

View of the child
Development of Cognition
The Role of the Child’s
Significant Persons
Key Areas in the Theory
Children take an active role
in the learning process,
acting much like little
scientists as they perform
experiments, make
observations, and learn
about the world.
A progressive reorganization
of mental processes
cognitive development was
a progressive reorganization
of mental processes as a
result of biological
maturation and
environmental experiences.
Piaget believed that one’s
childhood plays a vital rand
active role in a person’s
development. Piaget idea is
primarily known as a
developmental stage.
(1) Sensorimotor Stage (birth
to infancy)
(2) Pre-Operational Stage (two
to six years old)
(3) Concrete-Operational
Stage- (7 to 11 years old)
(4) Formal Operational Stage-
(12 to 15 years old)
Vygotsky's sociocultural
theory asserts that learning
is an essentially social
process in which the
support of parents,
caregivers, peers and the
wider society and culture
plays a crucial role in the
development of higher
psychological functions.
Argues that cognitive
abilities are socially guided
and constructed. As such,
culture serves as a mediator
for the formation and
development of specific
abilities, such as learning,
memory, attention, and
problem solving.
A social interaction that
plays a critical role in
children’s learning process
that is influenced by the
culture.
The Development of Though
and Language
Vygotsky Stage in
Conceptual Development
The Zone of Proximal
Development

1. What areas of Piaget and Vygotsky theory they are similar?

The areas of Piaget and Vygotsky theory are similar in development perspective, a dialect
approach, non-reductionist view a non-dualistic thesis an emphasis on action, primacy of
processes over eternal contexts or outcomes, and a focus in qualitative changes.
2. How would the areas you wrote affect the way you teach your students?
It’s helps to have an idea to teach and understands and guided, the teaching method can be an
improvements for the children. It will be better and able to increase knowledge.

1. Having an appropriate learning experience and materials can cope up to advanced thinking
and learning. It can help students to learn new ideas and adapt new concepts of skills. The
impact of Piaget theory a child development an observational studies of cognition in children
can test to reveal the different cognitive abilities.
2. Its encourage children to learn and promote development. It analyze the teacher what the
students is able to achieve. It determines that the teacher has a role on children life, the ability
to control on educational setting it include tasks, behavior and responses.