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4 Important Teaching Approaches For Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

Children always exhibit loads of enthusiasm to explore, experience and learn new things almost every single day. That’s why it becomes important that both educators and administrators are aware that learning can happen, effectively, only when the teaching approaches for early childhood education address all the developmental needs of children. The key objective of early […]

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The 3 Major Pedagogical Approaches To Teaching To Facilitate Learning

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

Young children learn from adults, their peer group and the environment around them. As a teacher therefore, you are expected to have a good understanding of the pedagogical approaches to teaching children, starting right from preschool. In this article: What is Pedagogy? Pedagogy, simply put, is the method of teaching. As a teacher/facilitator/educator of young

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The Classical Conditioning Theory Of Learning And Its Educational Implications

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

Babies, toddlers and young children are all born with integrated learning mechanisms and capacities that enable them to learn from their life experiences. From that standpoint, the Classical Conditioning theory of learning and its educational implications are far reaching, as it considers learning akin to forming new habits, which is an outcome of a stimulus-response.

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Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory Of Child Development

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory of child development is renowned not only for its theoretical foundations, but also its implications on early learning and development. The implications in particular, has deep references to the ecological and socio-cultural perspective of child development. In this article: What is Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems theory? The 5 levels of systems in

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The Implications Of Operant Conditioning In Teaching And Learning

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

Learning, according to psychologists, is a long-term change in behaviour that is based on experience. Since Operant Conditioning is a method adopted to impart learning in children, it becomes critical that both parents and teachers are aware of the important implications of Operant Conditioning in teaching and learning. In this article: What is Operant Conditioning?

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The 4 Processes Of Observational Learning And Its Implications

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

According to Canadian-American psychologist Albert Bandura‘s Social Cognitive Learning Theory, observational learning can affect the behaviour of a child, whose consequences can be both positive and negative. This is one of the reasons why gaining knowledge about the 4 processes of observational learning and its implications becomes crucial for parents, teachers and caregivers. While observational

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Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development By Piaget And Their Implications On Education

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

The Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development by Piaget is a stage when children can think about things beyond the physical world, such as things that happened in the past. They can also imagine and think symbolically, which is demonstrated through their language and behaviour. In this article: According to Jean Piaget, the second stage of

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The Process Of Cognitive Development According To Piaget

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

One of the most important aspects a parent, caregiver or teacher needs to know with regard to early childhood growth and development, is how a child thinks and learns. The process of cognitive development according to Piaget deals with how a child learns new concepts from his or her own perspective and life experience, which

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The Four Stages of Cognitive Development

The 4 Stages Of Cognitive Development According To Piaget

Early Childhood Education, Theories / Sheila Mathews

The 4 stages of cognitive development according to Piaget elaborates on the stages and the characteristics of cognitive development on the whole, and explains how the Sensorimotor Stage happens in a child. In this article: The 5 Main Characteristics of Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development According to Jean Piaget, the 4 stages mentioned above have

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