Jean Piaget: Selected Summaries: SELECTED SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

We have summarized the historical context in which Piaget developed his work and the essentials of the following texts: Studies in Genetic Psychology (1973) and Structuralism (1968). Includes a glossary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Dec 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201807023

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Jean Piaget: Selected Summaries

SELECTED SUMMARIES

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JEAN PIAGET: SELECTED SUMMARIES

First edition. December 3, 2021.

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ISBN: 979-8201807023

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

WHO IS PIAGET

piaget: STRUCTURE

piaget: STAGES

Piaget, Jean

Piaget: FOUR DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS

Piaget, Jean

GLOSSARY

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WHO IS PIAGET

Piaget, Jean (1896 -1980): Swiss biologist and epistemologist. He promoter of constructivist theory and creator of genetic epistemology and genetic psychology. He worked in the Binet laboratory where he was in charge of the standardization of a reasoning test, interested in detecting the underlying mechanisms of erroneous responses in children, creating an appropriate methodology for this: the clinical method, his first work on logic of classes and relationships in the child. In 1921, Claparède, being director of the J.J. Rousseau invited him to join and two years later he published Language and Thought in the Child, to later begin his studies of preverbal intelligence. Piaget studied the genesis (development) of scientific knowledge on the basis of investigating the construction of knowledge in the child. For this, he developed genetic psychology, establishing different periods from birth to the acquisition of abstract thinking, studying each one under the concepts of scheme, assimilation, accommodation, adaptation and balance. Among his main works we find: Origins of intelligence in the child (1936), Psychology of intelligence (1947), Six studies of Psychology (1964) The Psychology of the child (1966) and Studies of Genetic Psychology (1973).

HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN WHICH PIAGET DEVELOPED HIS WORK

JEAN PIAGET DEDICATED TO THE STUDY OF HUMAN COGNITION. In 1955 he created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva and launched an interdisciplinary program TO STUDY THE FORMATION OF THE BASIC STRUCTURES OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE THROUGHOUT CHILD DEVELOPMENT.

PIAGET WAS ABLE TO show that thought is built along a path, that it is not predetermined, but rather that access to logical thinking goes through different stages and that it even precedes the manifestation of language behavior

GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY IS BORN FROM AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, SINCE IT IS CREATED WITH A PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND FROM WHICH IT IS ASKED ABOUT KNOWLEDGE: WHY WE KNOW AND HOW WE DO IT

THE QUESTION THAT PIAGET IS GOING TO ASK IS HOW DOES IT GO FROM A STATE OF LESS KNOWLEDGE TO A STATE OF GREATER KNOWLEDGE?

For this research, Piaget decides to establish analogies between the construction of scientific knowledge and how the construction of knowledge occurs in the child. For this he will need a psychology that accounts for how the child builds knowledge. Thus was born genetic psychology, which he uses in the experimentation of his epistemological hypotheses

It is about discovering the structural mechanisms responsible for this complexity of knowledge, not its contents.

KNOWLEDGE IS AN ACTIVE AND DIALECTIC PROCESS, BETWEEN THE SUBJECT WHO KNOWS AND THE OBJECT TO KNOW, A PROCESS OF INTERACTION

KNOWLEDGE IS NOT INCORPORATED FROM THE PERCEPTIONS BUT FROM THE PERMANENT INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SUBJECT AND THE OBJECT. Scientific knowledge advances by reorganization of arguments and reformulation of theories, he will say.

Genetic psychology

GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY WANTS TO ACCOUNT THE COGNITION PROCESS, BY ITS MODE OF TRAINING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILD. ITS OBJECTIVE IS TO FIND OUT HOW COGNITIVE CATEGORIES ARE CONSTRUCTED AND WHAT MECHANISM UNDERLINES THEM

PIAGET, THEN, IS GOING to study mental functions and their structural development. Psychology will function as a tool that will allow him to study the laws of human behavior, and on the other hand, he will use LOGIC in relation to the general laws of knowledge. He combines these two contributions and creates GENETIC PSYCHOLOGY.

THE SUBJECT WHO KNOWS IS AN EPISTEMIC SUBJECT, WHICH IS NOT THE SAME AS THE SUBJECT OF THE CHILD'S PSYCHOLOGY. THEN THE OBJECTIVE IS TO FIND WHAT IS COMMON TO ALL THE SUBJECTS THEY KNOW, AT THE SAME LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT

Piaget says, in his book Structuralism (1976) (...) what has been lived plays an insignificant content, since the structures are not found in the consciousness of the subjects, but, (...) in their operative knowledge, and who have never become aware of them as ensemble structures (...) it is an epistemic subject, that is to say, of the mechanisms common to all individual subjects of the same level (...) subject as a functioning center " .

ITS OBJECT OF STUDY WILL BE THE CONSTRUCTION OF COGNITIVE STRUCTURES, INSTRUMENTS OF ASSIMILATION THAT ALLOW THE SUBJECT TO INCORPORATE REALITY INTO THEIR SCHEMES

THE METHOD IS THE SO-CALLED STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS, WHICH UNIFIES THE DIVERSE AND, BEYOND THE PHENOMENIC, SYNTHESIZES THE RELATIONSHIPS UNDERLYING THE OBSERVABLE

WHAT PIAGET DOES IS to reconstruct the process of behavior formation by investigating how children go from a state of lesser knowledge to a greater one, using the clinical method, with an interrogation about the