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Through his study of the field of education, Piaget focused on two processes, which he named [[Constructivism (philosophy of education){{em|assimilation]]}} and [[Constructivism (philosophy of education){{em|accommodation]]}}. To Piaget, assimilation meant integrating external elements into structures of lives or environments, or those we could have through experience.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Piaget|first1=Jean|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1522/030181265|title=connaissance de l'objet d'étude avec la connaissance du sujet étudiant entre assimilation et accommodation|last2=Dantier|first2=Bernard|date=2011|publisher=J.-M. Tremblay|isbn=978-1-4123-7505-4|___location=Chicoutimi|doi=10.1522/030181265}}</ref> ''Assimilation'' is how humans [[Perception|perceive]] and [[Adaptation|adapt]] to new information. It is the process of fitting new information into pre-existing cognitive [[Schema (psychology)|schemas]].<ref name=Stassen_p44>{{cite book|first1=Kathleen Stassen|last1=Berger|title=The developing person through the life span|publisher=Worth|isbn=9780716760801|date=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/developingperson0000berg_d0w9/page/44 44]|edition=7th|url=https://archive.org/details/developingperson0000berg_d0w9/page/44}}</ref> Assimilation in which new experiences are reinterpreted to fit into, or assimilate with, old ideas and analyzing new facts accordingly.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Kathleen Stassen|last1=Berger|title=The developing person through the life span|publisher=Worth|isbn=9780716760801|date=2008|page=[https://archive.org/details/developingperson0000berg_d0w9/page/45 45]|edition=7th|url=https://archive.org/details/developingperson0000berg_d0w9/page/45}}</ref> It occurs when humans are faced with new or unfamiliar information and refer to previously learned information in order to make sense of it. In contrast, ''accommodation'' is the process of taking new information in one's environment and altering pre-existing schemas in order to fit in the new information. This happens when the existing schema (knowledge) does not work, and needs to be changed to deal with a new object or situation.<ref name=McLeod/> Accommodation is imperative because it is how people will continue to interpret new concepts, schemas, frameworks, and more.<ref>"Block, Jack" "Assimilation, Accommodation, and the Dynamics of Personality Development"</ref>
Various [[teaching method|teaching methods]] have been developed based on Piaget's insights that call for the use of questioning and [[Inquiry education|inquiry-based education]] to help learners more blatantly face the sorts of contradictions to their pre-existing schemas that are conducive to learning.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Klein | first1 = Reuven Chaim | year = 2023 | title = The Passover Seder as an Exercise in Piagetian Education Theory
