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Piaget’s constructivism and childhood education in Japan

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  1. Department of Early Education at Chugoku Junior College, Okayama, Japan

    Yasuhiko Kato (Associate professor)

  2. United States of America

    Constance Katnii

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Original language: English

Since the 1980s, he has been applying and further developing the Piagetian early childhood curriculum developed by Constance Kamii and Rheta DeVries to early education in Japan. In 1993–94, as a visiting scholar at the University of Alabama, he studied Piaget’s theory under Constance Kamii. In 1997, he published a book in collaboration with Constance Kamii and Hermina Sinclair on the literacy development of Japanese young children. This book presents findings that support the work of Emilia Ferreiro and documents classroom activities based on Piaget’s constructivism.

Studied under Jean Piaget, Barbel Inhelder and Hermina Sinclair in the late 1960s and 1970s and subsequently developed an early childhood curriculum based on Piaget’s theory. She later extended this work to mathematics education in the first three grades and is now working at the fourth and fifth grade level. She has taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the University of Geneva, and is now professor of education at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

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Kato, Y., Katnii, C. Piaget’s constructivism and childhood education in Japan. Prospects 31, 209–220 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03220062

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