ABSTRACT
The concept of time in developmental and educational psychology was introduced through the early works of Piaget and is based on Darwin’s theory of evolution. As Perret-Clermont and Lambolez write,
[Piaget . . . ] instituted the so-called ‘genetic’ approach. Inspired by biology, he transposed to psychology the time inherited from natu- ral sciences, reinterpreted the concept of evolution, and imported the concepts of assimilation, accommodation, and equilibration, investing them with an explanatory function. (Perret-Clermont & Lambolez,2005, p. 3)
