JEAN PIAGET – Swiss psychologist (1896-1980)
“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterises children before they are deformed by adult society.”
“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”
“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”
LEV S. VYGOTSKY – Russian psychologist (1896-1938)
“Through others we become ourselves.”
“… People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”
“By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.”
CHILDREN ACTIVITY AT WORK: I work in a nursery part-time and I was having a conversation with one of the staff members and she did an activity with the children which has to do with self recognition and healthy eating. She used mirrors as her key object for the observation. The children had to look at themselves in the mirror and relocate their self on a plate from cut up fruits such as pineapple (for the smile), raisins (for the hair/braids) etc. The children enjoyed it especially as it encouraged them to eat ‘themselves’ (the fruit) in the end.
The Mirror - Raquel Soares Freitas 