THE TWO THEORIES THAT I CHOOSE TO COMPARE AND CONTRAST
WOULD BE Piaget and Bandura.
Piaget built his theories by studying the relationship based on how children
develop and learn. While doing his research Piaget believed that adaptation and
organization can be two critical components when dealing with cognitive
development. Piaget believed that we use schemata as a tool for cognitive learning.
Piaget’s Theory of Moral development can be broken down into two parts
which is Heteronomous Morality and Autonomous Morality. Piaget believed that
younger children were more concerned about the outcomes of a situation opposed
to the consequences. He also believed that older children would have motives
behind their behaviors without thinking about consequences.
While Piaget’s theory was more concerned with the way children processed
information and had the ability to understand figurative reasoning, which differs
from Bandura’s theory because Bandura focused more on how humans relates to
each other and different social aspects.
Bandura focused more so on the conscious of people and how people can
have a huge influence on their environments. Bandura strongly believed that
children learn by his four phases: Attentional Phase which is similar to the
observation phase, followed by Retention which is remembering what was
observed then the Reproduction phase and Motivational phase.
Both Piaget and Banduras theories have something to do with behaviorism
because they believe that the environment in which a child may be in can influence
their lives and choices and their ways of thinking. They Share the same aim when
trying to understand development.
Piaget main focus was on children’s socials factors, which can lead to a great
influence on all stages of development and not on just on their social levels.
Bandura’s differ from Piaget because he believed that it does not really matter if it
is a peer to peer interaction or a child to adult interaction. Children can learn and
imitate anyone or anything they see.
Being a school teach there can many ways to teach about right and wrong
and how children can develop that sense and the difference between the two. I
believe that children learn through experience and trail and era. For instance I
teach 4th and 5th grade. One day my male student yelled at another student and
before I can stop the situation from getting out of hand the second student reacted
and yelled back. At that moment I was able to stop them both and the young boy
who yelled first was very upset. So I sat them both down and talked it out. I asked
the male how did it make you feel when the other student yelled at you and he
replied. I then said well you did not like it so as you can see the other student did
not like it either so we have to mindful and treat and do nice things to our friends
and make sure that we do to them what we don’t like to be done to use. Now this
was just one phase one but this same lesson was repeated when dealing with taking
toys and even a hitting incident. Being in the classroom we cannot always see and
correct a child before someone retaliates and retaliation is not always the answer so
I also teach my students to ignore another student when they are not have gentle
hands and etc and come and tell an adult and we sit and talk about it and make sure
that there is a mutual understanding of what is right and what is wrong.
