THE THEORY OF JEAN PIAGET

The theory of learning advanced by Piaget is cognitive in nature and emphasizes the constructivist aspects of intellectual functioning. From Piaget's viewpoint, an organism's response is always constructed, in part, according to determinants that are intrinsic to its own structure. Development and evolution are seen as intrinsic characteristics of the biological knowing process and not as external events. Knowledge is thus not static but dynamic; it is neither solely in the subject nor in a supposedly independent object, but is constructed by the subject in a subject-object relationship. For Piaget, an object is not an object of knowledge until the knowing organism interacts with it and constitutes it as an object