The child's conception of time - Jean Piaget

KORTE INHOUD

Is our intuitive grasp of time primitive or derived? Is it identical with our intuitive grasp of velocity? What bearing do the answers have on the development of the child's conception of time?
Professor Piaget explains the implications in the answers to the above questions and illustrates that to prevent confusion and foster in the child early confidence to deal with more abstract concepts, a departure from traditional teaching of time and distance is urgently needed.
Children do not obtain their ideas about time quickly or easily. The young child, Dr. Piaget shows, confuses the concept of time with speed and distance. Only when basic reasoning is developed does the child begin to sense the abstract concept we use called "time".
"The unique contribution of Jean Piaget seems to me to be in the sensitive and imaginative way in which he has explored the inner world of the child's thought; the child's way of understanding the world, the social order and himself; and the long process of development from the infant...
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