The Enlightenment of Piaget’s Theory to Chinese Primary School Education

Abstract

Children's education, as one of the issues related to the future development of human generation, has raised great attention from schools, parents and the governments. This work aims to review Piaget' theory which was proposed by a famous psychologist Jean Piaget in 1927 by highlighting its contributions and possible applications. Piaget's theory divided children's development into four stages: the sensorimotor stage, the pre-operational stage, the concrete-operational stage and the formal operational stage. Piaget's theory has been considered one of the most front theories in the education field for its reasonable explanation on children's learning.However, there exists an aperture of understanding and application to the process of parenting because it was never represented to parents from a multi-scope prospective. By describing the current situation of Chinese, summing up previous related essays and giving implications, this review analyzed the benefits and drawbacks of applying Piaget's theory to primary school education. Here, we derive a thorough background of Chinese culture, the state of Chinese primary education, the influence of Piaget's theory and the inspiration on primary school students which is to turn "Tiger parenting" and "cramming teaching style" into peer learning. By giving advice to parents, we hope children can acquire helpful assistance for their cognitive development and attention to children's pressures from their parents. Piaget's theory has its flaws in insufficient considerations of culture, learning environment and so on. But it is a practicable way to establish children's cognitions as the following content describes.[16]