Re: All the way with Piaget

AGELIKI NICOLOPOULOU (agn3 who-is-at lehigh.edu)
Sat, 02 May 1998 09:35:30 EDT

Bill Baroway says he hopes someone has already made the argument that
<a> while we should recognize the inadequacy of the sociocultural
dimension in Piaget's understanding of development, on the other hand
<b> a satisfactory sociocultural theory needs to have a (more or less)
Piagetian element.

At the risk of being immodest, let me mention that I have an article
arguing along these lines (co-authored with Jeff Weintraub) forthcoming
in HUMAN DEVELOPMENT:

"Individual and collective representations in social context:
A modest contribution to resuming the interrupted project
of a sociocultural developmental psychology"

Among other things, the article tries to show that Piaget's whole
approach to dealing with the sociocultural context of development is
more complicated, and in some ways also more puzzling, than most
Piagetians and anti-Piagetians think.

Ageliki Nicolopoulou