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As a university graduate, Swiss-born Piaget got a routine job in Paris standardizing Binet-Simon IQ tests, where the emphasis was on children getting the right answers. Piaget obse
Gramática (Grammatics)
Instituto AOCP · 2021
Jean Piaget – Champion of Children’s Ideas "If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning." - Jean Piaget (1896-1980).
The legacy of Jean Piaget to the world of early childhood education is that he fundamentally altered the view of how a child learns. And a teacher, he believed, was more than a transmitter of knowledge. He/she was also an essential observer and guide to helping children build their own knowledge.
As a university graduate, Swiss-born Piaget got a routine job in Paris standardizing Binet-Simon IQ tests, where the emphasis was on children getting the right answers. Piaget observed that many children of the same ages gave the same kinds of incorrect answers. What could be learned from this?
Piaget interviewed many hundreds of children and concluded that children who are allowed to make mistakes often go on to discover their errors and correct them, or find new solutions. In this process, children build their own way of learning. From children's errors, teachers can obtain insights into the child's view of the world and can tell where guidance is needed. They can provide appropriate materials, ask encouraging questions, and allow the child to construct his own knowledge.
Piaget's continued interactions with young children became part of his life-long research. He explored children's countless "why" questions, such as, "Why is the sun round?" or "Why is grass green?", and concluded that they do not think like adults. Their thought processes have their own distinct order and special logic. Children are not "empty vessels to be filled with knowledge" (as traditional pedagogical theory had it). They are "active builders of knowledge - little scientists who construct their own theories of the world."
(Adapted from: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content)
In the text, the hyphenated words “Swiss-born” and “life-long” are both compound adjectives. About compound adjectives, choose the correct alternative:
- Compound adjectives that include adverbs ending in “-ly” should only be hyphenated if they come after the noun. Otherwise, they shouldn’t be hyphenated.
- Generally, when a compound adjective comes before the noun, it should be hyphenated. But if it comes after the noun, it shouldn’t be hyphenated.
- Attributive compound adjectives are those who come after the noun and should not be hyphenated, such as in: “[Piaget] was a Swiss born scholar.”
- In most cases, the usage of hyphens is purely optional, since there are no instances in which their placement could change the meaning of a word.
- Predicative compound adjectives are those who come before the noun and should be hyphenated, such as in: “[Piaget’s] life-long research.”
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A alternativa explica a regra prática: em geral, quando um **adjetivo composto** vem antes do substantivo, deve ser grafado com hífen; quando aparece depois do substantivo, não leva hífen.
O motivo é claro: o hífen sinaliza que as palavras formam uma unidade modificadora antes do substantivo, evitando ambiguidade e mostrando que atuam juntas como um único adjetivo.
Exemplos: "a Swiss-born teacher" (hífen porque o composto antecede o substantivo) e "the teacher was Swiss born" (sem hífen quando vem depois). Outro: "a life-long study" versus "the study was life long".
Observação breve: compostos com advérbios terminados em -ly ou formas consagradas podem ter regras próprias; consulte o guia de estilo quando houver dúvida.
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