1 IPATIMUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n 4200 Porto, Portugal;Tel: +351225570700; Fax: +351225570799 2 Escola Superior de Saúde Jean Piaget/Nordeste, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal 3 Serviço de Hematologia Clínica, Hospital Geral S. João, Porto, Portugal 4 Instituto Português de Oncologia, Porto, Portugal 5 Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal 6 Instituto de Genética Méd...

Over 30 years ago, a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky revived an ancient learning paradox filst intioduced by Plato (Piattelli-Palmarini, 1980) Chomsky challenged Piaget to explain how one could constrnct more advanced knowledge horn one's existing (less advanced) knowledge Chomsky argued that, without such an explanation fo1 learning, we must assume the innativist position that all ...

Zinacantec Maya weaving tools and apprenticeship practices contain an implicit theory of cognitive development that corresponds to Piaget and Inhelder’s explicit theory of cognitive development [The Child’s Conception of Space, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1956]. A set of preoperational and concrete operational spatial problems from the weaving domain provided empirical support for the eth...

For too long, too many in science and society alike viewed aging as offering little that was of value. There was a collective illusion of knowledge that aging was characterized by inevitable, unalterable decrements in functioning that led to a dismal destiny in later life. This was a widespread perspective on aging, especially in the scientific community. To the extent that scientists considere...

The ideas presented in this paper concern computer science education research within Jean Piaget’s theory genetic epistemology. Results from Piaget and collaborators investigations about the recursive reasoning on the series of natural numbers are extended to learn about entering students recursive reasoning on other inductively defined structures. In this paper the main aspects of that extensi...

Em suas pesquisas, Constance Kamii evidencia que princípios da teoria de Jean Piaget podem ser explorados em sala aula, desde o professor compartilhe concepção pedagógica e epistemológica objetive tais princípios. O ambiente as situações criadas pelo são determinantes no desenvolvimento criança, notadamente diz respeito aos baseados na autonomia, diferenciação entre os conhecimentos físico, lóg...