This PowerPoint presentation covers assignment 1 - Human development
theories, incorporating learning theories, and its application to teaching and learning in the Foundation Phase.
HUMAN DEVELOPMENTAL
THEORIES
AND
LEARNING THEORIES
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION A – DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES:
▪PIAGET’S COGNITIVE APPROACH
▪ERIKSON’S PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL APPROACH
▪MASLOW’S HUMANISTIC APPROACH
▪VYGOTSKY’S SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH
▪BRONFENBRENNER’S ECOSYSTEMIC APPROACH
SECTION B – LEARNING THEORIES:
▪ POSITIVIST & CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACHES TO LEAR
AND TEACHING IN FOUNDATION PHASE
REFERENCES
, SECTION A – DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIE
▪PIAGET’S COGNITIVE APPROACH:
» Child constructs mental map of the outside world.
» Knowledge & understanding is constructed over the course of devel
» Cognitive development occurs as a process of biological maturation
interaction with the world.
» Equilibration as the key that drives development
» Cognitive conflict necessary for cognitive development of child.
» Identified four stages of Cognitive development – sensorimotor stag
preoperational stage, concrete operational stage & formal operation
stage.
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