![]() Children are not passive learners, they actively build up their knowledge about the surrounding.Children think differently and see the world differently from adults. ![]() ![]() Piaget proposed a new set of assumptions about the intelligence of children: Piaget believed that these wrong answers revealed significant differences between the thinking of children and adults. He became interested to find out why children gave incorrect answers to the questions needing logical thinking (Meadows, 2019). In the 1920s, Piaget was working at the Binet Institute and his main responsibility was to translate questions written in English intelligence tests into French. ![]() In this article, we examine the implications his work has for the intellectual development of children in classrooms. His work is regarded as the cornerstone in the field of developmental psychology. Cognitive development in children is not only related to acquiring knowledge, children need to build or develop a mental model of their surrounding world (Miller, 2011). The Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, suggests that children's intelligence undergoes changes as they grow. What is Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development? ![]()
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