Piagetian Psychology Research Articles

Can Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning become an alternative to Piagetian psychology?

Can Ausubel's theory of meaningful learning become an alternative to Piagetian psychology?

An Alternative to Piagetian Psychology for Science and Mathematics Education

(1978). An Alternative to Piagetian Psychology for Science and Mathematics Education. Studies in Science Education: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-30.

An alternative to piagetian psychology for science and mathematics education

(1978). An Alternative to Piagetian Psychology for Science and Mathematics Education. Studies in Science Education: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1-30.

Toward a Scientific Treatment of "Exploitation": A Critique of Dalton

century epistemological paradigms. Explanations in terms of deep mathematical structures are in the forefront of the current thinking in physics (see Heisenberg's recent explanation of the structural nature of the atom), of biological sciences (see the latest explanation of the DNA), psychology (see studies on the structural nature of visual perception and Piagetian Psychology), on neuro-physiology (see the quotation from Stent) and in structural and transformational linguistics (see Rossi, in press). Yet Korn rejects the usefulness of mathematical explanations in anthropology. Our discipline would gain a great deal in theoretical and methodological sophistication if we would subject to critical revision prevailing but dated scientific models, and entertain a constructive dialogue with a pioneer school of anthropology which attempts to apply the latest scientific thinking to the study of culture.

Will improved nutrition help to prevent mental retardation?

Research in several countries has shown a clear association between protein calorie malnutrition in children and subsequent below-average scores on “intelligence” tests. Certain social, environmental and possibly genetic variables may affect both physical and mental development. It is, therefore, not yet known if this association is one of cause and effect, especially in mild or moderate malnutrition. A longitudinal study in Bogota, Colombia is investigating this problem using sex matched siblings. The research design allows some control of environmental and genetic factors. It has often been a problem in home supplementation programs to know whether any food supplement is, in fact, consumed by the target-children. Up to the present there has been no easy field test for evaluation of the utilization of supplements. In the Bogota study the use of D-xylose added to milk powder as a “tracer” has proved feasible and useful. The recent consumption of the supplement can be determined by a simple urine test. A battery of psychological tests has been chosen, validated and standarized for the Bogota study. They include traditional I.Q. instruments and also cognitive tests based on Piagetian psychology. Preliminary results indicate that the mean scores vary considerably both with nutritional status and with social class using the Griffiths Scale. In contrast the Piagetian tests show very small differences with social class.