Abstract
This chapter reviews Piaget's theories. At the same time as the first section of Piaget's work, Susan Isaacs was carrying out her experimental work in the Malting House School. Her plan was to have the children under continual observation, and this was the great difference between her approach and Piaget's. She observed the whole child in an unstructured situation and she was keenly critical of Piaget in two matters in particular. Firstly, Susan Isaac stated that the differences between her conclusions and his were that he attributed to maturation certain phenomena that can be shown to be, to a real extent, a function of experience, and secondly, that from the observations she made of the development of the children in her school her records as a whole cut right across any hard-and-fast notion of mental structures. In the second period of Piaget's work, which began in 1936, Piaget very considerably changed his approach and it resulted in far less criticism.
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