Application

• Piaget's ideas applied to education:

  * many schools group children by age to reflect the stages Piaget put forward eg Key Stage 2 = concrete operational stage

  * there's a curriculum for each key stage to not teach them something they're not ready for

  * Piaget believed intelligence is fixed, so schools expect children to reach targets depending on natural ability
• learning theories adapted to development:

  * many British schools teach about importance of growth mindset

  * teachers focus more on making children understand their learning rather than finding the child's learning style