Stage Theory of Cognitive Development—Jean Piaget
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This chapter outlines Piaget’s Stage Theory of Cognitive Development and its application in a teacher training institute involving graduate physics trainee teachers predicted to operate at the formal operational stage. It is presumed that, at this stage, having assimilated and accommodated logical understanding from the concrete stage, the trainees have a good articulation of theoretical, combinatorial and proportional reasoning. In this study, an attempt has been made to investigate this hypothesis through a case study involving six physics trainee teachers. The trainees were assigned a written task on the motion of a golf ball after which they were required to verbalise their reasoning patterns during individual oral presentations. The trainees demonstrated adequate theoretical reasoning but lacked combinatorial and proportional reasoning patterns. We opine that teacher training institutions should design programmes that make provision for the interconnection of concrete and formal operational stages into a cyclical mode so as to promote reflective practices in trainees.
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Oogarah-Pratap, B., Bholoa, A., Ramma, Y. (2020). Stage Theory of Cognitive Development—Jean Piaget. In: Akpan, B., Kennedy, T.J. (eds) Science Education in Theory and Practice. Springer Texts in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43620-9_10
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