Jean PiagetThree Kinds of Knowledge

Imelda C. Grado

Knowledge is construction resulting from a child

actionsThree kinds of knowledge

1.Physical Knowledge: Discovery2.Logical-Mathematical knowledge: Invention3.Social Knowledge

Physical Knowledge: DiscoveryPhysical properties

of objects and eventsEvents,size,shape,shaped,weighted

Acquires physical knowledge

Manipulating(acting on)

senses

Aa young boy who is playing with sand may pour the sand from one container to the

another. Feel it with his hands or pour it into his mouth

Fully accurate knowledge of objects cannot be acquired directly by reading, looking at pictures, or listening of what people say(they are all forms of symbolic representation)

The child cannot construct a n accurate schema of sand unless he acts on sand

Logical-Mathematical Knowledge: InventionIs knowledge constructed from thinking about experience with objects and events

Acts on objects

construction invents

Actions of the child on objects

Example:Number of concepts

(LMC)

A little girl may be playing with a set of 11 pennies .She puts in a row and counts them. There are 11 of them. She puts them in a circle and counts them again. She counts 11 pennies. The child puts the pennies in a box and shakes them up. Removed by the box and counted the pennies still add up to 11. Active

experienceChild construct

the concept(arrangement,

order)Logical-mathematical knowledge is not acquired from reading or listening to people to talk. It is constructed from

actions on objects

Social KnowledgeCultural or social groups ome to agree by

convention

Constructed by children from their actions on

( interactions with)other people

Example:Rules,laws,moral,value,ethic

s,and language sytemFully accurate knowledge cannot

derived directly by reading or from listening to people

Example:Teacher talk

Knowledge can be constructed