We had came across an interesting article related to this topic. The link as follows:
http://learning.media.mit.edu/content/publications/EA.Piaget%20_%20Papert.pdf
Overall, Piaget's theory of CONSTRUCTIVISM offers a view for us to see what children are interested in, and able to achieve, at different stages of their development (sensorimotor, pre operational, concrete operational, formal operational) .
The theory describes how children’s ways of doing and thinking evolve over time, and under
which circumstance children are more likely to let go of—or hold onto— their currently held
views.
Whereas, from Papert's theory of CONSTRUCTIONISM, focuses more on the art of learning, or ‘learning to learn’, and on the significance of making things in learning. Papert is interested in how learners engage in a conversation with [their own or other people’s] artifacts, and how these conversations boost self-directed learning, and ultimately facilitate the construction of new knowledge. He stresses the importance of tools, media, and context in human development.
SIMILARITIES:
- Both are constructivists in a way that they view children as the
builders of their own cognitive tools, as well as of their external realities. - Both are developmentalists as they share the view on knowledge construction.
The common objective is to highlight the processes by which people outgrow their current views of the world, and construct deeper understandings about themselves and their environment.
DIFFERENCES:
- Piaget's theory emphasizes on the stages of cognitive development whereby the children have to follow the periodical stages compared to papert .
