... of how children develop and learn (NAEYC, 2011). It is key to understand and know how children are developing and learning as early childhood educators. Background Information Here is some history on the theorist Jean Piaget. He was born in Switzerland in 1896 and died in 1980. Piaget was a constructivist and was an epistemologist, which is someone who studies the ... stages of cognitive development show how each individual child develops and learns in the early stages of life. Stages of Cognitive Development Piaget was the first psychologist to make a systematic study of cognitive devel...

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