An Early Childhood Instructional Strategy Based on Piaget's Theory of Equilibrium.

Pellegrini, A. D.

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Publication Date: 1981

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An Early Childhood Instructional Strategy Based on Piaget's Theory of Equilibrium.

Pellegrini, A. D.

Reading Improvement, v18 n2 p173-76 Sum 1981

Discusses Jean Piaget's notion of equilibrium--the propensity to reduce conceptual conflict--in relation to early childhood education. Presents an instructional model that has the teacher raising children's conceptual conflict through a series of open-ended questions. (FL)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Learning Theories, Questioning Techniques, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Teaching Methods

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Language: English

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