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• Jean Piaget: 'Children adjust their mental frameworks or Schemas to absorb new information/experiences and therefore to reflect their current understanding/experience of a concept/thing/object. This process is one of actively constructing one’s knowledge/understanding of the world'
• Piaget's view on assimilation


  Smaller or more minor modifications of mental frameworks to make new information compatible
• Piaget's view on accommodation

  Significant alteration of a point of view to make it compatible with new experience/encounter
• Piaget vs Vygotsky

  Piaget emphasized children’s exploration of the physical world, while Vygotsky maintained that social and cultural factors were a child’s primary source of learning/instruction
• Vygotsky's concept of scaffold

  Structure provided by parents and teachers (MKO’s) to aid a child’s learning
• Vygotsky's concept of zone of proximal development

  Interaction facilitated by an MKO with a receptive child, creating an interactive learning space for greater learning
• Gradual lessening of supporting guidance by MKO’s


  As the child demonstrates greater understanding/mastery
• Kohlberg's = Heinz's predicament
• Erikson's theory of psychosocial development

  Focused on the relationship of the child/person to significant others in their immediate surroundings including parents, teachers, and peers
• Developmental crisis faced by adolescents in Erikson's theory

  Identity versus role confusion, where teenagers must choose from among many options and choices concerning faith, belief in God, career, morality, ethics, belief system etc.
• Sigmund Freud's view on resolution of Oedipus complex and/or Electra complex