Would agency theory play a role in the development of agricultural techniques?explain how and give an example?

What role does Piaget's cognitive Development theory and Vygotsky's Social Constructivist Approach play in understanding cognitive development in early middle and late childhood?

• Answer:

  Piaget stresses that children actively construct knowledge through experiences while Vygotsky stresses that adults and the wider society creates the context for those experiences. A reading of Piaget's thesis would suggest that humans gradually learn to be more logical as they get older and can move from concrete to abstract thinking. His concern is with epistemology or how knowledge is possible and leads to considering that a child orders experience much like a scientist exploring the world and establishing rules and laws. Vygotsky makes us aware that such pure abstract knowlege is constrained or guided or structured by the social environment in which learning takes place.