Web Links

The Jean Piaget Society
(http://www.piaget.org/main.html)

Provides a biography of Piaget and presentations from the Jean Piaget Society Annual Symposium from 1995 to the present.

Piaget's Stages
(http://www.eagle2.american.edu/~gb3107a/piaget.htm)

Covers all four of Piaget's stages-sensorimotor, pre-operational, and formal operational.

Sensorimotor Development
(http://www.sensorimotor.com/articles.htm)

Provides an overview of Piaget's six substages of sensorimotor development.

Cognitive Milestones
(http://www.sesameworkshop.org/babyworkshop/library/article/0,3170,860,00.html)

Read about a number of cognitive changes in infancy.

Challenges to Piaget
(http://www.dadi.org/theoryx2.htm)

Interviews with leading developmental psychology researchers such as Susan Gelman, Andrew Meltzoff, and Alison Gopnik discuss recent theory and research that challenge some of Piaget's ideas.

Symbolic Thinking
(http://www.sesameworkshop.org/parents/advice/article/0,4125,740,00.html)

Examines young children's symbolic thinking during the early childhood years.

Piaget and Education
(http://129.7.160.115/inst5931/piaget1.html)

Information about Piaget's stages of cognitive development and implications of his ideas for educating children. Also explores instructional technology and Piaget's constructivist ideas.

Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist
(http://leda.calstatela.edu/faculty/psparks/theorists/501vygot.htm)

Explores many aspects of Vygotsky's theory including its ties to philosophical views, his unique contributions, historical contexts, and the importance of learning to use a culture's tools effectively.

Vygotsky Links
(http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/)

Extensive links to a wide range of ideas related to Vygotsky's views.

Scaffolding
(http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffolding.html)

Read about the application of scaffolding to learning and the Internet, scaffolding and Vygotsky's theory, and constructivist exercises.

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