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15 - Piaget’s Pedagogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2010

Ulrich Müller
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, British Columbia
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Leslie Smith
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
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Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society (whereas) for me, education means making creators, even if there aren't many of them, even if one's creations are limited by comparison with those others.

(Piaget, 1977/1980, p. 132)

INTRODUCTION

Education is a complex business and one of its parts is pedagogy, that is, the process of education in which knowledge or skills are imparted through teaching. My chapter on Piaget's pedagogy (PP) runs directly into a problem. Piaget's work is commonly interpreted as a pedagogy-free zone with teaching adding next to nothing to children's development. In this chapter, I want to do three things. First, I revisit the educational critique of Piaget's work to show that this critique is flawed - good evidence shows that PP works well in practice. Then I provide PP's re-analysis to show that its main principles are theoretically alive and well. Finally, the last section contains a review of my argument with pointers to future directions.

PIAGET'S PEDAGOGY IN PRACTICE

Piaget's work has attracted attention with regard to its educational potential and promise. The predominant view, however, has been that it failed to deliver; that is, the outcome of the educational critique has commonly been negative. In this section, I review this negative critique and then state a counter-argument to show that it is flawed.

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Print publication year: 2009

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