Re: [xmca] LSV on the preschool stage

[Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>]

On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:35 AM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:

> I agree with your initial assessment that LSV believes development first 
> comes from outside the child and that Piaget believes children have inate 
> thinking abilities that are strengthened as they develop.

Eric,

My way of putting it would be more like this: that for Piaget the child is continuously interacting with the environment and adapting to it. 'Interiorization,' is the process of child's 'reflexive abstraction' of their own actions into increasingly abstract and mental operations. 

For LSV there is, equally, always an interaction between child and (social) environment, but the process of development always involves a 'social moment,' so that functions first move 'inward psychologically' as the child becomes aware of and masters what was previously social, and then 'inward physiologically' as functional brain systems develop direct linkages to handle what was previously only possible through motor-sensory linkages mediated outside the body. 

The latter account leaves out the alternation of 'periods' and 'crises' during development, however.

As for the case of children with developmental disabilities, that lies way outside my meager areas of expertise.

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