2022-09-192022-09-192022-07-20FAGUNDES, Roany Pantoja. Teorias do desenvolvimento, à partir de Jean Piaget e Lev Vygotsky. Orientador: Georges Alberto da Silva Pinheiro. 2022. 23 f. Trabalho de Curso (Licenciatura em Pedagogia) – Faculdade de Educação e Ciências Sociais, Campus Universitário de Abaetetuba, Universidade Federal do Pará, Abaetetuba, 2022. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br:8443/jspui/handle/prefix/4482. Acesso em:..https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/4482The present work had as its theme the process of cognitive development of the human being, based on the studies of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, looking for an understanding of the process by which the child experiences during his life and his relationship with the external environment. When going through the process of cognitive development, the subject, the individual, has contact with solid experiences that aim to build a social being. Piaget was based on the phenomenon of abstract, mental, logical thinking, independent of human action on things and, consequently, scientifically, on what he called Genetic Epistemology. Vygotsky, who had a training and academic life totally focused on the arts and human sciences, stood out for his study of aesthetics and literature, researched processes of change in the history of the subject, seeking historical psychology, based on historical materialism. dialectic. In such a way, both were concerned with genetic, social and psychological issues to understand how cognitive development occurred. The objective of this work is to analyze the theories of these two authors on cognitive development and its relevance in the teaching and learning process in early childhood education.Acesso AbertoDesenvolvimento humanoEstágios de desenvolvimentoInteração socialZona de desenvolvimento proximalHuman developmentStages of developmentSocial interactionProximal development zoneCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO::FUNDAMENTOS DA EDUCACAO::PSICOLOGIA EDUCACIONALTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - Artigo