Contemporary Issues in Cognitive Developmental Psychology

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Contemporary Issues in Cognitive Developmental Psychology

The stage in which a child learns is very important in psychology.

Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner are the most popular psychologists who

have contributed to developmental learning.

The issue still among psychologists today is the debate on teaching,

and how children should be taught.

There is the, "talk and chalk" method where the teacher teaches the

whole class interactively and the children can participate when asked

to. Piaget believed in student centred learning and not group

learning. The advantage of this method of teaching is that they are

all going up a level at the same time; there might be a few that fail

to follow but the teacher can push them. Children can also start to

interact with each other and get to know other people in their

classroom. This could also reduce prejudice at a young age. If they

work as a group they also learn as a group, but the downside of this

is they may lose their sense of individuality. And as a group they may

feel as, "one." If they were to do a practical there would be one

child who would be the leader, which would not benefit to the other

children.

The other method of teaching is the individual/ group method. This is

where Piaget's individual learning programme enters. Vygotsky's spiral

curriculum would be useful in this method since it opens complex ideas

so that they can be presented at simplified levels. Each student

should find their zone of actual development and then the teacher

should be the outer circle so they can go to their zone of proximal

development. The disadvantage of this is the cost of student centred

learning. At the moment we have whole class teaching and there are the

ups and downs of that but if the individual learning took place it

will improve due to the individuals needs being noticed and processed.

Individual learning can also be structured by scaffolding so the

child's attempt to understand new ideas will be done with even more

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