Comparing Piaget And Vygotsky

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Maria Espindola
Mr. Fortune In her video “The Theories of Cognitive Development including Piaget and Vygotsky”, Dr. Amanda Waterman explains both theories. First, she describes Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development stage where he believed that children went through diverse stages. According to Dr. Waterman, Piaget said that children construct their understanding through their own experiences or interaction with the environment and also assumed that children do this through the use of schemes. It is the way that children organize their knowledge into progressively complex cognitive structures. Scheme change as the children develop. Piaget believed that those schemes were action-based on physical interaction with the environment when the