CHILDREN S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING

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developmental stages in learning to think (Piaget’s theory, CACE 1967 50). Similarly, it is not believed that a child cannot be taught until she/he is cognitively ‘ready’ (CACE 1967 75). Rather, it is important to assess how far a child can go under the guidance of a teacher (the ‘zone of proximal development’, Vygotsky 1978).

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