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Reconsidering the Role of Overcoming Perturbations in Cognitive Development: Constructivism and Consciousness
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Becker, Joe – Human Development, 2004
Constructivist theory must choose between the hypothesis that felt perturbation drives cognitive development (the priority of felt perturbation) and the hypothesis that the particular process that eventually produces new cognitive structures first produces felt perturbation (the continuity of process). There is ambivalence in Piagetian theory…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Consciousness Raising, Cognitive Structures
Whose Mind?
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Valsiner, Jaan – Human Development, 1996
Considers the mind of the epistemic psychologist, a constructivist knowledge creator within a scientific framework, guided by the social world of scientific institutions. Suggests that Piaget and Vygotsky shared respect for complexity of phenomena and were consistently developmental in their theories. A reconsideration of their common heritage…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Constructivism (Learning)