Piaget: Applied

Four interviews into predicting a child's mind

A course on the thought of Jean Piaget.

Course outline

1. Six Ways to Be an Infant — The sensorimotor stage taken apart into its six sub-stages — from reflexes, through the circular reactions that build and coordinate schemes, to the arrival of mental representation. The student…
2. The Shape of the Pre-Operational Mind — The whole pre-operational package mapped as one structure seen from many sides: egocentrism (the three-mountains task), animism and artificialism, centration and the failure of class inclusion, and…
3. The Many Conservations — Conservation is not one achievement but several, acquired in a fixed order across years — number, then length and mass, then weight, then volume (the horizontal décalage). The student learns to…
4. The Logic of the Possible — Formal operational thought (~11+): reasoning about the hypothetical and the possible, systematically. Through the pendulum problem the student learns to recognise hypothetico-deductive reasoning and…

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