Piaget and Vygotsky are similar in two key areas. First, both men believe that learners construct knowledge through interactions with their social environments. In other words, children do not and cannot learn well in a metaphorical vacuum. They must actively interact with their peers and with more knowledgeable teachers. By learning in social environments, the student is forced to assimilate new knowledge with existing knowledge while at the same time providing feedback to the educator.
A second key similarity between both educational philosophers is that both men believe that a learner's ability to learn advances in stages. Those stages are, for the most part, quite rigid. Both men also are similar in their beliefs that the early stages of childhood development and learning are the most crucial stages.
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