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QUESTION 7 CRITICAL COMPARISON OF JEAN PIAGET'S GENETIC EPISTEMOLOGY AND LEV VYGOTSKY'S SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT In this essay on cognitive development I will critically compare the theories of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, who were both influential in forming a more scientific approach to analysing the cognitive development process of the child's active construction of knowledge. (Flanagan 1996 P.72). There is sometimes a tendency to interpret the work of Piaget and Vygotsky in a polarised way, as if the work of one had next to nothing in common with that of the other. On this interpretation, there is an exclusive choice to be made between Piaget, or Vygotsky, but not both. Any such interpretation would have the consequence that developmental psychology and education could have nothing in common, when viewed from a Piagetian as opposed to a Vygotskian perspective. In contrast to this exclusive interpretation of 'Piaget or Vygotsky', there...

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