Implications of Piaget for the Everyday Laboratory Experiences of Children

Authors

Thomas E. Allen, University of Texas

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In recent years, we have seen a great increase of interest in the work of Jean Piaget. Educational psychology courses and magazines for teachers feature frequent discussions about the Swiss psychologist and his research. Such discussions, however, often dwell on his descriptions of the stages of intellectual development and the cognitive abilities characteristic of each stage. Such an emphasis on classification is unfortunate because it encourages categorization of children while diverting our attention from the more important aspects of Piaget's discoveries - Piaget has analyzed the learning difficulties of many children and how children learn and, by implication, has shown how one might teach to overcome these difficulties.

Publication Date

September 1977

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

14

Issue

2

First Page

32

Last Page

35

Copyright

© Copyright 1977 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Allen, Thomas E. (1977) "Implications of Piaget for the Everyday Laboratory Experiences of Children," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 14: No. 2, Article 28.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol14/iss2/28