ABSTRACT
Genetic epistemology is itself a science in development. ... The genetic epistemologist traces the development of a given science up to its current point of development from the point of view of the researcher's own knowledge at its current point of development. Future developments in both are, of course, possible. (p. 201)
CATEGORIES OF INHERITORS
ISSUES IN CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
CONCEPTUAL CHANGE
Dynamical Systems Approaches
Sociocultural Perspectives
[I]t is much more complicated to know which child is the epistemic subject. After all, childhood, as a separate period of life, is largely dependent on the culture and its particular demands, and, even in Western societies, it is culturally dated. (p. 249)
1. PIAGET'S LEGACY 15
Paradigm Shifts
l. PIAGET'S LEGACY 17
constructing a ladder grounded in the concepts of T1 [the earlier theory], getting to a new place, and then kicking the ladder out from under. ... [Facts that were provided by the old theory] provide fodder for disequilibration .... They become articulated in the concepts of T2, internal contradictions are resolved, and then the ladder is kicked out from under. (p. 316)
REFERENCES
1. PIAGET'S LEGACY 19
