Five main schools of thought dominate this field of research, including behavioral, developmental, cognitive, constructivist, and experiential perspectives. This perspective suggests that all ...

Throughout the late 1960’s and into the early 1970’s, teacher preparation programs began to include Piaget’s work on cognitive development and adaptation in the curriculum, and pedagogical practices ...

With the arrival of constructivist theoreticians such as Jean Piaget, cognitive developmental theory became more visible in psychology. Piaget observed that children’s cognitive development ...

Constructivist learning theory is built on the concept that learners actively build their own knowledge, that it is based on personal meaning, and that it is guided by prior knowledge and events.

One of the earliest proponents of constructivism was Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, whose work centred around children’s cognitive development. Piaget’s theories (popularised in the 1960s ...

The technological advancements in e-Learning are linked with the theories of learning like behaviourism, objectivism, constructivism and cognitive and social constructivism. Objectivism believes that ...

I apply theories of cognitive constructivism in my teaching. My publications are in Journal of Child Development and Journal of Aggressive Behaviors.