Genetičke pretpostavke konstrukcionističke epistemološke paradigme
The Genetic Presumptions for Contructivist Paradigmes of Epistemic Nature

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author deals with contemporary change of epistemological paradigm and elementary assumptions of establishing a constructionist paradigm. Following the stances taken by Ernest von Glasersfeld, the paper analyzes the basic normative and physiological, i.e. genetic assumptions of human thought as interpreted by Jean Piaget. Cognitive development is moving towards the higher and higher forms of the mental balance which represents a progressive adaptation to reality, motivated by genuine mental needs o f solving intellectual problems. Piaget presents a cognitive scheme by which the problem is destabilization of a previously achieved balance, and the solution restores the balance, but this time at a higher level, since that was not possible under previous circumstances. The mechanism by which this transition occurs Piaget calls reflective abstraction.

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