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Claparède is the founder of the Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Geneva. As an intellectual with a wide range of knowledge, he contributes heavily to the construction of a psychology of the child and to a «new pedagogy» and he is strongly engaged in the school reform of the twenties and thirties. What is his view of the role of knowledge for educators? And his view of the role of knowledge in education for development? We will answer this question in comparing his view with the one of another most famous intellectual active in the same domain: at the same time as Claparède, but beginning ten years later, Vygotsky also contributes to the construction of a science of the child – pedology – and reflects on school reform; but from a quite different point of view in what concerns the role of knowledge in development. A most challenging contrast for thinking about knowledge and education; a contrast that still exists today in educational sciences…
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