NEO-PIAGETIAN THEORIES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT ____________________________
Some theorists have combined some of Piaget’s ideas with concepts from in formation processing theory to construct neo-Piagetian theories of how children’s learning and reasoning capabilities change over time (e.g., Case, 1985, 1991; Case & Okamoto. 1996; Fischer & Bidell, 2006; Fischer & Daley. 2007, Morra et al., 2008). Neo-Piagetian theorists don’t always agree about the exact nature of children’s thinking at different age levels or about the exact mechanisms that promote cognitive development Nevertheless, several ideas are central to their thinking :