Piaget And Carl Rogers Comparison Paper

The learning theorists that I picked to do my compare and contrast paper on are the traditional learning theorist Jean Piaget and contemporary learning theorist Carl Rogers. Jean Piaget focused on cognitive development where as Carl Rogers was more focused on the humanistic approach.

Jean Piaget focused on cognitive psychology. The textbook Learning A Survey of Psychological Interpretations defines cognitive psychology as explaining behaviors and learning based on cognitions. Carl Rogers was focused on humanistic psychology. Humanistic psychology is studying the whole person. Jean Piaget was very focused on schemas. Piaget defined schemas as “cohesive, repeatable action sequence possessing component actions that are tightly interconnected

Jean Piaget and Carl Rogers were both interested in learning and how people learned throughout life. Jean Piaget was more focused on children, where Carl Rogers was more focused on everybody. Learning for Jean Piaget meant that we took in information and stored it for later use; Carl Rogers believed that learning in an active process. Jean Piaget believed that learning was teacher/facilitator guided, where as Carl Rogers believed that learning was determined by the pupil. The job of the teacher/facilitator was similar and yet different between learning theorist Jean Piaget and Carl Rogers. Jean Piaget believed that teachers played a more active role in learning for children. In Jean Piaget’s theory he believed that teachers/facilitators guided the children into connecting information to schemas. Carl Rogers believed that children played a more active role in their learning and teachers played more of a bystander role. In Carl Rogers theory teachers/facilitators played the role of helping children figure out their own learning strategies to

Another similarity between Carl Roger and Jean Piaget would that be an individual is in control of their own learning. If an individual wants to learn it is their responsibility to do the work and participate in their own learning process. Carl Rogers and Jean Piaget both believed that the environment played an important role in learning. Carl Rogers believed that in order to learn the environment should be a safe non-threatnening environment. Jean Piaget believed that the environment was important in adaption of a person, meaning a person would adapt to the environment around them. Jean Piaget was a strong believer in adaptation. Adaptation is important because Jean Piaget believed that a child was able to pick up certain things from the environment and learn and adapt using what they picked