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4.0
A solid review of the dominating theories and ideas of developmental psychology! (VYGOTSKY!!!!!)
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p. 49 on Structuralism
1) the structuralist framework and schemes/schema/schemata. "A scheme is an organized pattern of behavior, it reflects a particular way of interacting with the environment...in contrast, the cognitive structures of older children, from roughly age 7 on, are organized abstract mental operations similar to logicomathematical systems. The structuralist framework can be seen in the way these schemes and operations organize themselves into a system that can be applied to various contexts."
That's all very appealing isn't it? But, Piaget constructed these ideas in the 70s, give or take, well into the industrialized era. And isn't it a tad too convenient that the conceptual models of children remarkably imitate libraries and nested folders that we adults are so accustomed to in our lives? What I'm saying is: perhaps there's too much sociocultural bias here, the observer changing the observed. The organization into schema seems to me more a product of children imitating that which they see around them in the Adult world than any consistent evolutionary method of thought distributed to all the children considered in evaluation.
This isn't by any means a critique of the actual text itself though; it's purely a critique (or more accurately, a conceptual extension) of Piaget's ideas. THe text itself is AMAZING. Miller, if you're reading this, your writing is absolutely stellar, and you're making all these concepts fantastically approachable for a human sciences newbie like myself. THANK YOU, MILLER!!
Other notes/reading notes:
p. 49 on Structuralism
1) the structuralist framework and schemes/schema/schemata. "A scheme is an organized pattern of behavior, it reflects a particular way of interacting with the environment...in contrast, the cognitive structures of older children, from roughly age 7 on, are organized abstract mental operations similar to logicomathematical systems. The structuralist framework can be seen in the way these schemes and operations organize themselves into a system that can be applied to various contexts."
That's all very appealing isn't it? But, Piaget constructed these ideas in the 70s, give or take, well into the industrialized era. And isn't it a tad too convenient that the conceptual models of children remarkably imitate libraries and nested folders that we adults are so accustomed to in our lives? What I'm saying is: perhaps there's too much sociocultural bias here, the observer changing the observed. The organization into schema seems to me more a product of children imitating that which they see around them in the Adult world than any consistent evolutionary method of thought distributed to all the children considered in evaluation.
This isn't by any means a critique of the actual text itself though; it's purely a critique (or more accurately, a conceptual extension) of Piaget's ideas. THe text itself is AMAZING. Miller, if you're reading this, your writing is absolutely stellar, and you're making all these concepts fantastically approachable for a human sciences newbie like myself. THANK YOU, MILLER!!