Category Archives: Piaget

Piaget, Vigotski y Maturana, constructivismo a tres voces

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

El objetivo del presente texto es presentar una síntesis de tres discursos constructivistas que están presentes y son influyentes en el ámbito de la educación, y que a nuestro entender difi~ren en algunos aspectos esenciales respecto de su concepción o … Continue reading →

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Piaget and Vygotsky: Many resemblances, and a crucial difference

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Piaget and Vygotsky are two influential developmental psychologists. One can even say that their contributions to developmental psychology, albeit different, are similarly remarkable and unique. This article is in four parts. In the first part, I refer briefly to a … Continue reading →

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Metacognition and Self-Regulation in James, Piaget, and Vygotsky

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

This article investigates the intertwined constructs of metacognition and self-regulation as they emerge in the works and theories of James, Piaget, and Vygotsky. To coordinate this exploration, we use an interpretive framework based on the relation of subject and object. … Continue reading →

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Contrasting Piagetian versus Vygotskian Activity Theories of Learning and Development

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

This paper contrasts the notions of learning, teaching and development as these are conceptualized in two versions of constructivism: the socio-interactional one (in which Piagetian and Vygotskian insights are often merged) versus the one founded by Vygotsky and expanded in … Continue reading →

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Social antimony in discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read Ever since the publication of the first translation of Vygotsky’s Thought and Language (reborn as Thinking and Speech 25 years later) there has been an ongoing debate about the relationship between the ideas of Vygotsky and Piaget. In the … Continue reading →