I choose the scenario relating to the child and the educator. Here's how I interpreted it: The educator believed that the child was behind his developmental stage, perhaps based on Piaget's four developmental stages. This prompted the educator to put the child in a situation where he would have to "learn to become independent." The child seemed to feel scared and overwhelmed by the situation in which he had been placed and made this clear to the educator by crying profusely, to the point that the educator had to justify why she had left him there "he needs to learn to be independent". (Mac Naughton, 2003, pp.51). The educator's point of view The educator believed that the child could not be left alone and that he needed to learn to become independent. Based on constructivist theory, a child's learning is thought to be based on doing, trial and error to build on existing knowledge to create new knowledge. “we learn through our actions of acquiring information, working with that information and transforming it into new understandings or connecting it to what we already know” (Mac Naughton, 2003, ). The educator in this scenario obviously believed that the child would only learn to be independent if left alone for a period of time. Although constructivist theory is based on a child learning from their own active participation and actions, they also believe that learning relies on social interactions to create concrete knowledge “learning is only meaningful if we have it” (Mac Naughton , 2003, pp .41). The educator in this scenario took more of a Piagetian view of constructivism (individual constructivists), which believed that "adults (educators) play a non-directive role in a child's learning" (But...... middle of paper ......was creating a pleasant and healthy environment so that the child would be happy, content and could learn to become independent by taking on the role of power, without thinking about how the child felt about the situation and assuming that the child would simply "learn " to become independent by being alone showed that their relationship will be limited in favor of the child as he would feel neglected and distanced from the educator, which may cause mistrust towards him. Works CitedVygotsky, LS (1978). Mind and society: the development of higher mental processes. Dictionary, A. H. (2000). American Heritage® dictionary of the English language. Piaget, Jean (1968). .Mac Naughton, G. (2003). Modeling early childhood: Students, curriculum, and contexts. McGraw-Hill International.