Early childhood is a time of crucial cognitive growth, including the ability to engage in pretend play, produce and ...

Jean Piaget's ideas about child development continue to influence pedagogical practices around the world. His pioneering work revolutionized our understanding of how children learn and think.

Gradually he pieced together a "blueprint" for normal cognitive development ... The stage from 18-24 months to 7 years Piaget called preoperational, where children can think about things in ...

By thinking that children have great cognitive abilities, Piaget came up with four different cognitive development stages, which he put out into testing. Within those four stages he managed to group ...

children enter the preoperational stage at around two years old Despite being over 70 years old, Piaget's theory is "still one of the prevailing theories in terms of cognitive development," Dr Sam ...