Blog Post #1
Hello and Welcome to my Blog! The purpose of this blog is to share my thoughts and reflections while studying in this course about the sociology of childhood. I am excited to post and share with you. Blog Post #1 Conservation tasks build the foundation of the theory from Piaget’s constructivist thoughts about the nature and development of human intelligence. He theorized about developmental stages in a child’s life and discovered that children understand conservation tasks in this order; number, length, liquid, mass, area, weight, and volume. He used his work to determine which state children fell into and even what mental age the child was. Piaget and Constructivist believed that, “children do not transfer knowledge from the external world into their memories; rather they build personal interpretations of the world based on individual experiences and interactions” (Ertmer and Newby, 1993, p. 63). In a conservation of mass task, children are provided two balls of clay and then t...