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PIAGET'S THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
     The Evolution of Piaget's Thinking
     The Child as an Active Seeker of Knowledge
 
PIAGET'S STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
     The Sensorimotor Period (0 to 2 Years)
     The Preoperational Period (2 to 7 Years)
     The Period of Concrete Operations
     The Period of Formal Operations
     Self and Other: Piagetian Concepts and the Beginning of Social Cognition
 
EVALUATION OF PIAGET'S THEORY
     Strengths of the Theory
     Did Piaget Judge the Child's Abilities Accurately?
     Does Cognitive Development Proceed in Stages?
     Overall Assessment
 
VYGOTSKY'S SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY
     Elementary and Higher Mental Functions
     The Zone of Proximal Development
     The Role of Culture
     Mathematics and Culture
     The Role of Language
 
EVALUATION OF VYGOTSKY'S THEORY
 
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