Piaget: Scholar

Three verdicts — where the tasks were redesigned, and what survived

A course on the thought of Jean Piaget.

Course outline

1. The Infant Knew More — Object permanence revisited. Baillargeon's violation-of-expectation studies find in 3-to-4-month-olds a knowledge Piaget's search test placed at eight months — forcing the competence/performance…
2. The Question Behind the Question — Two redesigns that lift the pre-operational ages by years without changing the child — McGarrigle & Donaldson's 'naughty teddy' on conservation and Hughes's 'policeman' on egocentrism — and the…
3. What Survives — The final accounting: Vygotsky's social-cultural alternative set against Piaget's lone constructor; the stage model's genuine problems (décalage, domain-specificity, gradualness); and the durable…

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