Critique+of+Piaget

=Critique of Piagets work: = 
 * Piagets Theories have been replicated many times all over the world and the main concern is towards their interpretation. Generality about his theory has been questioned. As Donaldson argued "his theory was too insensitive to the nature of tasks and neglected the social and cultural meanings of the materials used to test children ". ( Wood, 1998)

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 * Another criticism of Piagets work is that his studies can involve tasks that children are unfamiliar with. With pre-operational children Piaget suggests that thier communication is egocentric, His argues that they cannot see from anyone elses perspective only their own. Donaldson disagreed with this as the norm with all children in the peroperational stage, stating that children are not limited when to comes to the conceptualisation of space. A chilld can solve a task such as the mountain experiement as long as the actions


 * Piagets observations were initially based on his own 3 children which might raise a comcern for subjectivity, also his work is hard to generalise as his sample was small. Most of the other children he observed were from a well educated middle class background. Piaget has also been critised for underestimating the abilities of children especially in the preoperational stage. Other studies repeated since then have shown that children aged between 4-5yrs have the abilitie to see things from other peoples perspective and not just through there own egotistical thinking. (Support and Theory.....)