Table 1
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Developmental Theories
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Maria Montessori |
Jean Piaget
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Birth to 3 years: Absorbed mind; Sensory experiences |
Birth to 2 years: Sensorimotor period; Obtain basic knowledge through the senses |
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18 months to 3 years: Coordination and muscle development; Interest in small objects |
Age 2 to 7 years: Preoperational period; Develop language and drawing skills, but self-centered and cannot understand abstract reasoning or logic. |
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Age 2 to 4 years: Refinement of movement; Concern with truth and reality; Awareness of order sequence in time and space. |
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Age 3 to 6 years: Susceptibility to adult influence Age 3.5 to 4.5 years: Writing abilities Age 4 to 4.4 years: Tactile sense development Age 4.5 to 5.5 years: Reading abilities |
Age 7 to 11 years: Begin to think logically, organize knowledge, classify objects and do thought problems.
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Age 11 to 15 years: Children begin to reason realistically about the future and deal with abstractions. |
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Age 6 years and onwards: Advanced skills in all basic disciplines are developed |
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Overall: The prewriting steps should begin extremely early, with basic reading, writing and mathematics skills developed prior to age 7. |
Overall: Reading, writing and mathematics should be left until the period from 7 years onwards. |
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