At 4:07 PM -0500 3/19/07, Joan Warmbold wrote:
I'm still baffled that Piaget still carries such influence. His
conclusions on when children acquire concepts have been shown to
tremendously underestimate their reasoning abilities.
Mostly a case of overgeneralizing on at least two levels.
He observed when a very limited sample of children demonstrated
certain skills, and inferred from that that:
1. ALL children acquired those skills at about that age, and
2. That the reason for this was an inherent capability.
I had a grad student about thirty some years ago do her dissertation
on teaching a group of children supposedly too you to show one the
the conservation skills to do it, with little trouble.
Simply a question of when the necessary experiences took place.
No reason why most children couldn't acquire these skills earlier if
they were taught them.
Nothing 'developmental' in the physical maturation sense about it.
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