try and think a bit broader if you word it right you can use any learning theorist e.g piaget says we learn through experiances-therefore we know what a child experiances will influence their intellectual development this influences practice as we try to provide a wide range of activities where the child can experiance different things for example our role play and story activities allows the child to experiance different use of language developing language concepts.
uhm skinner -positive negative reinforcement, frobel believed in imaginative play margret mcmillan agreed but thought mathamatical concepts should be taught through structured activities
bruner talks about scaffolding helping children to the top of a problem to develop key skills
also search for the different theories on intellectual stages
vygotsky believes your born able to understand language etc
hope this helps
if you have the penni tassoni book then look from page 195 on. i lost mine a few weeks ago and cant look for it bc we are in the midle of moving but if i had it i could help more. sorry its prob been packed somwhere.
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