Jean Piaget and Henri Wallon are the masters of the child development psychology in the 20th century. They studied under direction of the same teacher. Their books were written in French. But of their books those of Piaget were translated into a lot o...
Jean Piaget and Henri Wallon are the masters of the child development psychology in the 20th century. They studied under direction of the same teacher. Their books were written in French. But of their books those of Piaget were translated into a lot of languages, became well known all over the world, while so were not Wallon's books. This is why Wallon was Marxisit in those days, as a result, no one attracted attention to him in America. And also his books were not translated, so not known in the world.
Wallon was very interested in Piaget's cognition theory. Their thoughts are, however, different in various ways. Piaget has concentrative interest in children's understandings, while Wallon harminized well cchildren's biological, psychological and social points. Their differences are as following :
1. Wallon and Piaget had belief in the reaction of children's understanding development. But, Wallon put importance not only on the reaction of children and their environment, but also on their emotion and understandings.
2. Piaget's development theory is based on the succession and the unsuccession of development relationship, while Wallon puts an emphasis on quantitative differences of development steps.
3. Piaget thinks children's thought is first of all important, while Wallon insists on their language acquirement abilities.
4. For Piaget, children's imitation is the accommodation action, while for Wallon, their imitation is based on understanding action.
This way, Wallon and Piaget have contributed to children's total interest, their educational policy and its practice. Consequently, their researches should be translated studied. And their theory should be adapted to practical, educational spots.