Comments by Jean Piaget.

A social psychological basis of corruption and sociopathology

“…Through his experience with the observation of his own children and the experiments he designed and performed, Piaget (1969Piaget ( , 1981 and Piaget and Inhelder (1969, p. 6) theorized that the acquisition of knowledge occurs through the processes of assimilation and accommodation (Table IV), an idea that was picked up and integrated into a learning theory by Kolb (1974). Assimilation incorporates or integrates new information into an existing knowledge scheme defined through a pre-existing cognitive structure that can be expressed as a noumenal ideate or model, filters or modifies information inputs, and entails adaptation by which the cognitive form is conserved.…”

Dialectics and Development: Soviet Preschool Psychology

“…Egocentric, or self-guiding, speech is intended to communicate with the speaker himself, while social speech is intended to communicate with other individuals. Piaget [1962] has disagreed, however, noting that to speak of egocentric speech as socialized is to render the word 'social' meaningless. According to Piaget socialized speech is speech tailored to the needs of a listener who is not the speaker himself.…”

“…This discussion of egocentric speech is not as illuminating as some recent non-Soviet work [Kohlberg et at., 1968] which supports Vygotskii's position. One could wish that the book were more consistently up to date -a chapter on thinking takes account of Piaget's [1962] reply to Vygotskii in its discussion of egocentric speech, but this is unfortunately not the case in Elkonin's chapter on the development of speech, which misrepresents Piaget on several points.…”

Feral children: settler colonialism, progress, and the figure of the child

“…Piaget advanced what he termed a 'genetic epistemology' according to which childhood before the age of seven was characterized by animism, or the belief that inanimate objects possessed a kind of agency. 93 The view that Indigenous peoples were equivalent to European children around the age of seven was common. 94 In 1979, the anthropologist C.R.…”