Piaget’s Early Theory of the Role of Language in Intellectual Development

A Comment on DeVries’s Account of Piaget’s Social Theory

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ID11527005
AuthorsJoe Becker (University of Illinois at Chicago, 1040 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607; . His research interests include constructivist theory and mathematical cognition.MARIA VARELAS is an associate professor in the College of Education (M/C 147), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1040 W. Harrison St. Chicago, Il 60607; . Her research interests include constructivist approaches to teaching and learning and science education, corresponding author), Maria Varelas (0000-0001-8212-2674, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1040 W. Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60607; . His research interests include constructivist theory and mathematical cognition.MARIA VARELAS is an associate professor in the College of Education (M/C 147), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1040 W. Harrison St. Chicago, Il 60607; . Her research interests include constructivist approaches to teaching and learning and science education, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume30
Issue6
Pages22-23
Publication date2001-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3102/0013189x030006022
OpenAlexW1974508394
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

In the March 1997 Educational Researcher, Rheta DeVries presented a thought-provoking account of the social factors in Piaget’s conceptualization of intellectual development, primarily in his early works. However, DeVries ignored the fact that in these early writings Piaget made language an integral part of his ideas on intellectual development. DeVries’s elision is unfortunate for two reasons. First, it raises an issue of validity: Are we justified in simply discarding the linguistic element of these writings? Second, DeVries missed the opportunity to show how Piaget’s early ideas on the role of language might be relevant to contemporary interest in socio- cultural aspects of development

Cognition · Cognitive development · Conceptualization · Constructivism (international relations · Epistemology · Language and thought · Linguistics · Piaget's theory of cognitive development · Educational and Psychological Assessments · French Language Learning Methods · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity

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