Piaget's - application in education

• Readiness


  You can not teach a child to perform certain activities before they are 'biologically' ready
• Discovery


  A child must discover concepts for themselves rather than rote-learning material that is given to them. Children play an active role in education
• Individual learning 


  All children go through the same development stages in the same order yet they do so at different rates
• Stages of development


  Sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete-operational, formal-operantional
• Evaluation - Positive


  Very influential
• Evaluation - Negative


  Research refuting
• Evaluation - Negative


  Alternative explanations