PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Change, Mary Ainsworth, Attention
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Piaget has had a strong impact on education: Children are encouraged to discover for themselves through spontaneous interaction with objects in the environment. Instead teachers watch for the emergence of schemas and present them with challenges. Teachers realize that though all children go through the same sequence of development, they do so at a different pace. De-emphasized communication-based routes to knowledge but this has been criticized. Believed that complex mental activities such as attention, memory and problem solving, have their origin in social interaction. Zone of proximal development: a range of tasks that the child cannot yet handle alone, but can do with the help of more skilled partners. The main difference between a piagetian and a vygostskian classroom is that in the latter promotes assisted discovery. Scaffolding : adjusting the support offered during teaching to fit the child"s current level of performance. Peer collaboration: teachers group together classmates of different abilities and encourage them to help each other.
