ABSTRACT
The dialectical nature of Jean Piaget's constructivism shares a common epistemological foundation with the ideology of socialism and any educational applications of Piaget in a pedagogical context must be viewed within a congruent political and economic system. Any educational implications of Piaget's developmental theory would have to be examined in light of the overriding function of schooling in America which essentially serves to support and promulgate the political ideology of capitalism through the psychology of behaviourism. It is argues that the political ideology of schooling in the Anglo-Saxon culture is consistent with the theoretical foundations of modern monopoly capitalism. To grasp the significance of praxis and the social relations of production, one must understand the Marxian conception of history. Theories are categorically subsumed under models. As opposed to a model, a theory is a statement which can be proved true or false about the relationship of the elements in a model.
