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Assignment 2
Assignment 2
It is true that piaget and vygotsky's theories have a common believe when it comes to education
because both thought that such education was necessary for the growth of more moral and
progressive communities. Reason and culture, according to Piaget and Vygotsky, must inform
one another in order to advance and despite their shared conviction that schools must be
constructivist spaces, they disagree on specific theories and approaches to implementing
constructivism in the classroom and Vygotsky agreed with Piaget that cognitive capacities grow
in stages and that the stages' descriptions are generally accurate; however, he saw cognitive
development as a social process in which children learn from knowledgeable adults.
When it comes to Vygotsky social constructivism and Piaget cognitive constructivism is different
because Vygotsky explores the value of learning alongside peers and how culture affects the
accommodation and assimilation of knowledge while Piaget focuses on the interaction of
experiences and ideas in the creation of new knowledge. Dewey places a strong emphasis on
inquiry and the blending of classroom and outside of class activities and Piaget thought that the
individual was the main factor in the learning process, but Vygotsky thought that the social
environment was the main factor.
according to Piaget's theory (Woolfolk, A., 2004), children advance through the phases of
cognitive development through maturation, methods of discovery, and some social transmissions
through assimilation and accommodation. The significance of culture and language in one's
cognitive development was emphasized by Vygotsky's theory.