Showing papers by "Jean Piaget published in 1968"
TL;DR: In this article, the fundamental mode of relation could not correspond to the classical notion of association: it consists in processes of "assimilation" of the object to the subject's structures or schemes, with "accommodation" of these structures to the properties of the objects.
Abstract: Summarizing a summary is impossible if we want to avoid unacceptable schematizing. So let us merely state the theses very briefly developped in this article. (I) Knowledge deals with the transformations from a state into another one, each one being, at the same time, the point of arrival and the starting point of actual transformations. (II) Therefore knowledge is continously being built up, and this progress does not come down to recordings of external informations, but includes an internal mechanism that (III) can be reduced or compared to self- regulations in the biological meaning. (IV) So the fundamental mode of relation could not correspond to the classical notion of association: it consists in processes of “assimilation” of the object to the subject's structures or schemes, with “accommodation” of these structures to the properties of the object. (V) The mental development includes stages that occur in a necessary sequential order, but without any fixed chronological date; on an other hand...
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