Il costruttivismo di Jean Piaget. Per una “morale del pensiero” e una “logica dell’azione”

Thinking is intrinsic argumentativa and thetorical, tending to build a world outlook and to join a particular type of “Weltanschauung”. Regarding the thinking of Jean Piaget, it proposes us a reflection starting from the psycho-genetical theory of the intellect through a constructivist methodology depending on the symbolic dimension of the language and on the ontogenetic stages of cognition. This genetic epistemology starts from the circularity of cognitive subject-object-subject, specific to purchases of new knowledge and to mental-psychological development of human beings. Piaget links the human psyche and physical and mathematical concepts through space, time, object and causal concepts. In this context, Piaget’s theoretical foundation finds its application in Pedagogy, in its view of education with social and quasi-soteriological meanings. Constructivism is present in contemporary Pedagogy, which must take into account the fact that sensory and motor activity underlies the mental images that are constructed, in turn, through the operational symbols appropriated by the individual as intellectual representations.