Piaget and Vygotsky

Piaget and Vygotsky’s Ideas and Practices
I will discuss language, cognition, and the two well-known theorists who are considered the “giants” of the twentieth century as well as were both significant in forming a more scientific approach to analyzing the process of cognitive development. There are those that say that Jean Piaget who was born in 1896 and died in 1980 was the founder of developmental psychology. Piaget began his research career on children by making extensive written notes, often on a daily basis, about the behavior of his three infant children. Piaget not only observed natural behavior, but also tried out little experiments to test alternate interpretations of what the children could do. In addition, Piaget was the first to take children’s thinking seriously. Although Piaget never thought of himself as a child psychologist, his real interest was the theory of knowledge, which, like physics, was considered a subdivision of philosophy until Piaget ca...