Session Information
Contribution
Piaget – he worked since 1921 in the Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau – elaborated, as one knows, an outstanding theory of the cognitive development of the child. He describes step by step the construction of the operations of thinking as the result of general coordination of actions of the subject, without a decisive need of social transmission or language. The question of consciousness is marginal in his conception; consciousness is interpreted as the result of the same mechanisms of coordination, based finally on constant biological laws. Discussing very thoroughly Piaget’s work, Vygotsky shows that his approach, precisely because it excludes transmission and education as explanatory factors, cannot explain the origin of consciousness which is social contact with oneself. Most interestingly enough, as will be shown, Piaget was not far away, in one of his texts, to admit this kind of definition. The question of consciousness is indeed a way to analyze profoundly the relationship between these major psychologists and to show the central place of education.
Search the ECER Programme
- Search for keywords and phrases in "Text Search"
- Restrict in which part of the abstracts to search in "Where to search"
- Search for authors and in the respective field.
- For planning your conference attendance you may want to use the conference app, which will be issued some weeks before the conference
- If you are a session chair, best look up your chairing duties in the conference system (Conftool) or the app.