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Assignment 3Compare Piaget and AusubelYour answers for each section above should be in a Table format.

PIAGET SIMILARITIES AUSUBEL

1. Cognitive constructivist

2. Theories are hierarchically organised (from simple to complex)

PIAGET DIFFERENCES AUSUBEL

1. Individual learning (how does an

individual construct knowledge)

1. Mass learning (large group, large

amount of information delivered)

2. past, incidental experiences

assist learners to assimilate new

information

2. use of advance organizers

(abstract ideas) to assist learners in

subsuming new information

3. Schema / Assimilation /

accommodation

3. Cognitive structures /

Subsumption

4. Age-specific theory of cognitive

development

4. no age-specific theory of

cognitive development

5. Conceives thoughts as action 5. Conceives thoughts as

reorganization of cognitive

structures

6. favours discovery learning 6. emphasize on meaningful

reception learning (anchorage +

retention)

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Assignment 3Compare Vygotsky and Bruner.Your answers for each section above should be in a Table format.

VYGOTSKY SIMILARITIES BRUNER

1. Insist that there is no separation between the mental and the social aspects of

growth

2. Socialization will lead to an increased level of knowledge

3. Agreed scaffolding is essential to assist learners

VYGOTSKY DIFFERENCES BRUNER

1. Social constructivist 1. Cognitive constructivist

2. students learned better through

assisted learning, or guide

participation through conversations

and interactions with people (MKO)

2. believes that students learn better

if they acquire the information

themselves (self-directed) using

active participation and the teacher

giving support at the right time

2. Emphasize on social interaction of

learners with MKO and scaffolding.

Also learning is limited to a time span

which he called zone of proximal

development which had to be done

in social setting

2. "spiral" curriculum was designed

to teach students the ideal structure

of the "content" organized by tasks

that return to previously learned

topics

3. 4 basic principles

- learning leads development

- language as a tool to acquire

knowledge- children construct own knowledge

- Development cannot be separated

from social context

3. developed 3 stages of

representations

Enactive- motor responses

iconic- visual imagessymbolic- arbitrary words &

symbols