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On 13 February 2013 21:19, Goncu, Artin <goncu@uic.edu> wrote: > > In re-reading Piaget for a class I teach, I saw the following sentences in > "The Moral Judgement of the Child" that I had underlined many years ago, > noticed them again, and felt that he may not have been given sufficient > credit for his observations about the role of culture and class in his > discussions. On p. 209-10 referring to the findings he has just reported, > he says "To begin with, they relate only to the children belonging to a > certain ethnical (sic) group and a certain social stratum (the poorer > parts of Geneva and a few children from an elementary school at > Neuchatel.) I wish he had theorized about the role of culture and class, > going beyond these observations but that is another story... > > My reading recollection is that he is forever hedging his bets and encumbered by an audience expecting a "rational" account of genetic phenomena. On one occasion I was hunting about for some Piagetian ideas that, I was confident, were laid out with clarity only to discover that is was Vygotsky writing about Piaget. No doubt there's much more to it -- the influence of idioms such as French sociologists and psychologists, translations etc. Huw > Artin Goncu, Ph.D > Professor, > Educational Psychology > College of Education M/C 147 > 1040 W. Harrison St. > Chicago, IL 60607 > http://education.uic.edu/epsy/browseour%20faculty.cfm > (312) 996-5259 > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca