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CONCRETE OPERATIONS With David Elkind, Ph.D.
1993 (25 min) $250.
ISBN: 1-891340-58-1 View a short clip from this film. Visit our Support Materials section to view or download the Learning Guide and Discussion Topics for this film.
Ideally it is in middle childhood that we learn the basic skills of reading and writing. The intellectual capacities necessary for this learning were explored by Jean Piaget who called them “concrete operations.” In this film students see the contrasts between children who are operating at earlier stages of intellectual development and higher levels so as to understand the characteristics of this stage. The film presents both traditional structured interviews using the ingenious tasks Piaget developed and film sequences from schools showing the connection these thought patterns have with academic achievement.
Film content: Assimilation and accommodation model of learning Piaget’s stages: Sensori-motor- World of permanent objects Pre-operational- Symbolic thought Concrete operations-Regulation by rules Formal operations Concrete operations Emphasis on real objects Transitivity Reversibility (Conservation) Unit concept Use of concrete operations in a first grade classroom Response to criticism of Piaget’s ideas
Visuals: Structured interviews: Seriation task with three children at different stages Conservation of number task with four children Conservation of volume task with three children Classification task with two children Proverb task with one child
Classroom
sequence shot in an early childhood center and a first
grade
Math with manipulatives Early writing Journal writing Reading Games with rules
Consultant: David Elkind, Ph.D. is a Professor of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts. He did his Ph.D. at UCLA and a post-doctorate year in Switzerland working directly with Jean Piaget. He is a Past President of the National Association for the Education of Children. Dr. Elkind is the author of several seminal books, among them: THE HURRIED CHILD, ALL GROWN UP WITH NO PLACE TO GO, THE POWER OF PLAY.
Other films with Dr. Elkind as consultant: PIAGET’S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION GROWING MINDS: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD ADOLESCENT COGNITION: THINKING IN A NEW KEY USING WHAT WE KNOW: APPLYING PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY IN PRIMARY CLASSROOMS Related film: Part of the CONSTRUCTIVISM SERIES
A Published Review of this Film: Reviewed by Rue Herbert, Library Media Center, University South Florida, Tampa Piaget's Developmental Theory: Concrete Operations looks at the third of Piaget's age-related stages. During the Concrete Operations Stage (from about 6 to 12 years old) children develop logic and are able to use rules and units. At the same time, thoughts remain rooted in the present with real objects. Piaget scholar Dr. David Elkind examines the elements of the Concrete Operations Stage through taped exercises with a variety of children at different levels of development. The program discusses intelligence as an interplay of adaptive thought and action. As a child becomes older, "thought and action become increasingly flexible and freed from the domination of immediate perception." During the Concrete Operational Stage, a child develops the logical processes of transitivity and reversibility, and is able to combine these two processes to attain the unit concept. Dr. Elkind clearly illustrates Piaget's Concrete Operations Stage through a variety of taped interactions with children throughout the program, and provides expanded discussion of Piaget's theories and their criticisms. The program's production standards are high, and its content would be particularly useful for study and research in elementary education and developmental psychology. This program is highly recommended for academic libraries. Related titles available from Davidson Films, Inc. include Piaget's Developmental Theory: An Overview and Using What We Know: Applying Piaget's Developmental Theory to Primary Classrooms.
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