Childhood Education

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Under early childhood education, various changes have been seen over the past years. This evolution has encouraged the understanding and improvement of the human condition in regard to the diversified vital issues in society. This impact has been felt in the cognitive development of child’s education.
In the initial stage of cognitive development, that is, the pre-operational stage, the child playfulness is manifested by intense fantasy and concrete thinking. The child plays include more scenarios and characters and can indulge in complex games. The second stage of symbolic function has experienced a dramatic change where children minds develops and they are more of egocentric in nature. Their main focus is not to understand the cause or effect of their actions on
other individuals but only themselves.
Intuitive thought is culminated by centration process whereby the child focus is on one trait and uses it in judgmental decisions. In most instances, the child tries to come up with the reason for existence of things the way they are. For instance, the child questions every undertaking and no longer need to rely on the hypothesis. The other cognitive stage of information processing involves a major improvement in that the child’s concentration is rebuilt, remember the previous information encountered with ease and also apply the information experienced in the past in the current situation. At this stage he understands the importance of his brain and appreciates his cognitive ability which is developing.
The final stage in the cognitive development is language development has also experienced major changes. The child can understand the use of vocabulary and also be able to come up w...