ABSTRACT
Social construction of cognitive development refers to the fact that human beings must develop epistemic consciousness of their worlds, a consciousness that is triggered in social relationships and shaped by two sets of structures that affect both its course and its outcomes. On the one hand, epistemic consciousness is maintained and directed by internal structures and mechanisms of the mind. On the other hand, it depends on external constraint systems that represent the specific nature of experience. Thus, the socialization of cognition consists in the interaction of internal structures of the mind with the representations of experience arising in the specific ecological setting of development.
