Child s Mind And Brain Process New Information - 1566 Words

Jean Piaget (n.d.) has mentioned that â€Å"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.† This believed to apply to every human being including children. Cognitive development is a neuroscientific and psychologic study of a child’s development on how they process the information, uses of the mental resources and skills, learning different languages and other characteristic that a child will develop comparing to an adult’s brain. For decades, different psychologist such as Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, and Lev Vygotsky have researched and created different kind of theories that helps the adults to understand how a child’s mind and brain process new information especially in†¦show more content†¦Hidden curriculum is a type of lessons that are not included in the formal curriculum and are unintentionally taught by teachers. While the formal curriculum contains the topics for each of the subjects and learning activities, hidden curriculum contains lessons that students pick up by themselves. For example, from the class, a student can learn how to write English and how to calculate Mathematics but they can also learn values such as honesty and how to interact with their peers and how to respect elders such as teachers. These are all included in the hidden curriculum because it is not written in the formal curriculum to teach thus the students automatically learns from the school surroundings. Marsh et al (2014) states that in Piaget’s theory students â€Å"†¦movement through these stages depends on the quality of their environment.† The right environment is important because students can trust and understand what is right and wrong and school are and should be one of great example of being the right environment for a student. The connection between the Piaget’s theory and the hidden curriculum is that a developing child understand and e volve to their surrounding more quickly than adults and hidden curriculum that is taught in the right environment can mold these knowledges to lead the child on the right path and make strong citizen which is one of the main aims of education in a society. From Piaget’s theory states that learning needs to be engaging both