A FOLLOW‐UP STUDY OF SOME ASPECTS OF THE WORK OF PIAGET AND INHELDER ON THE CHILD'S CONCEPTION OF SPACE

Abstract

Summary. In their book, The Child's Conception of Space, Piaget and Inhelder suggest that a child's first spatial concepts are topological ones and that these later lead to projective and euclidean concepts. A number of experiments from five chapters of their book were undertaken with some 140 children of nursery‐school age. Part of the evidence presented agrees with that of the authors' and some is at variance with theirs. It is suggested that much more experimentation is needed before the main thesis of Piaget and Inhelder is accepted.