Not exact matches
In the
development of human thought and perception, the shift from primary orality to vowelised literacy involves the movement from an implicit sense of things in
concrete operational thinking to explicit concepts articulated through abstract thinking.
If Goldman is right, the literal option at this age level almost guarantees rejection of both story and meaning when the student moves into puberty (unless his mental
development is arrested at what Piaget calls the
concrete operational level).
Jean Piaget outlined five stages of cognitive
development: sensorimotor stage from birth to age 2, the preoperational stage from ages 2 to 6, the
concrete operational stage from age 7 to 11, and formal
operational stage from age 12 to adulthood.
(1) «Conservation refers to a logical thinking ability which, according to the psychologist Jean Piaget, is present in children during the preoperational stage of their
development at ages 4 — 5, but develops in the
concrete operational stage at ages 7 — 11» (Wikipedia).