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)

familiar and they can refer it to similar experiences in their life.
 * 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 of the characters are