Piaget Constructivism Theory

Definition

Constructivism is a theory to explain how knowledge is constructed in the human being when information comes into contact with existing knowledge that had been developed by experiences. It has its roots in cognitive psychology and biology and an approach to education that lays emphasis on the ways knowledge is created in order to adapt to the world. This theory mentioned that what we learn most effectively through experience. In Jean Piaget's research on child development, he said that play is important for the child to create new conclusions about his world. Educators such as Montessori, who supported the theory, believed that a child's hands-on experiences increased his learning ability. Constructivism has implications to the theory of instruction. Discovery learning, hands-on, experiential, collaborate, project-based, tasked-based are a number of application that base teaching and learning. Jean Piaget believed that children are active in their cognitive development.  Through interaction with the objects in the world around us, we learn and build our knowledge.  Piaget said that our cognition is develops through the process of assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration.

Activity

• ·  By playing with kitchen percussion with his hand, a 6^th months old baby could learn the rhythmic noises much faster rather than just listen to the music or radio. Adult educators use Constructivism as the basis for doing "hands-on" classes for learning any new endeavor, from art history to fiction writing.