Maturationism is an early childhood educational philosophy that sees the child as a growing organism and believes that the role of education is to passively support this growth rather than actively fill the child with information.
[2] In maturationism, genetic factors play a larger role in development than environmental ones, particularly in regard to language acquisition.
Here, the effect of genetic inheritance to development has more bearing than the impact of nurture, experience, and learning.
[3][5] Learning programs based on the maturationist perspective usually focus on certain tenets of psychodynamic theories of development and progressive educational philosophy.
[2] These draw, for instance, from the work of Sigmund Freud as reflected in their emphasis on early experience for subsequent emotional, social, and cognitive development.