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Piagetian

Piagetian

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About Jean Piaget's ideas on how children think and learn
  • adjective
  • /piˈædʒiən/
  • Specialized
: piagetiano
  • A Piagetian perspective helps educators understand how young learners think and solve problems.

Examples

  • This has important implications for the Piagetian idea that young children are "egocentric."

    Academic text (1996)
  • When tutors respond to their tutees' questions or misunderstandings, they may be engaging in a form of Piagetian cognitive conflict.

    Academic text (2015)
  • And this is the Piagetian theory in very brief form.

  • Thus, the dynamic systems theory agrees with both the Piagetian and Gibsonian positions.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Based on a Piagetian approach to cognitive development, her model places parental conceptions into four increasingly comprehensive levels.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Rather than behaving in a generally egocentric manner, in the Piagetian sense of the term, children's environmental competence is clearly dependent on the specific situations in which it is displayed.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The Piagetian approach emphasizes that children learn through interacting with their environment.

  • According to Piagetian theory, children progress through different stages of cognitive development.

Surface Forms

Piagetian positive

Morphology

Piagetian = Piaget (opaque) = Piaget + ian

The suffix '-ian' indicates relation to a person, but without specific knowledge of Jean Piaget, the meaning is not transparent.

Etymology

Piagetian comes from the name of the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and the ending -ian, which means 'related to' or 'belonging to'. So, Piagetian describes ideas, methods, or research that come from Piaget's work on how children think.