Week 6: Piaget and Human Development
I'm going to come right out and say it. I had a hard time understanding the
article for this week. I don't know if it was the wording or what, but I had to
read the article at least 3 times before I grasped it. Piaget's theories are
not that different from others we've seen, they just add a different way of
looking at the development and learning process. I think, perhaps, that it
gives an easy to follow structure (I say "easy" somewhat sarcastically) by which
we can identify the developmental progress of a learner.
If what he says is true, then we as instructors should be able to help a learner progress
faster if his learning level is identified and if tools are made available that
are tailored to help him, and others like him, progress through and advance
to the next developmental stage.
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Submitted by Kevin Hansen on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 1:09pm
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I read Mesirow's theory this
I read Mesirow's theory this week since I work with adult learners and I will admit that I had to read the article a couple times to really get what they are saying. From what I've heard so far about Piaget's theories, you are right about them not being so different from the others. I've started to see a trend of a few weekly theoris being closely related but with a different spin on them.