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Piaget and Vygotsky emphasise different aspects of cognition. What are the educational implications of their ideas? How have the criticisms of writers such as Donaldson affected the standing of their theories?
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Piaget and Vygotsky emphasise different aspects of cognition. What are the educational implications of their ideas? How have the criticisms of writers such as Donaldson affected the standing of their theories? Aspects of cognition and the theorists behind them have had much literature devoted to the subject. Since the 1970's Piaget's theory has received extensive evaluation and in recent times writers such as Donaldson and in the last ten years Flavell, have been criticising and disproving aspects of cognition that theorists like Piaget have published. In this essay I will be describing briefly what Piaget and Vygotsky's aspects of cognition are, and the difference between them. I will then show using evidence from Curtis, O'Hagen1 and Sutherland2, the different educational implications of their ideas. Finally I will then consider what affect the criticisers of Piaget and Vygotsky have had on their relevance in today's world. Piaget suggested that children pass through a...
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