to avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptat… - Jean Piaget

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to avoid the difficulties of teleological language, adaptation must be described as an equilibrium between the action of the organism on the environment and vice versa.

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Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist, famous for his work with children and his theory of cognitive development.

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Every structure is to be thought of as a particular form of equilibrium, more or less stable within its restricted field and losing its stability on reaching the limits of the field.

But these structures, forming different levels, are to be regarded as succeeding one another according to a law of development, such that each one brings about a more inclusive and stable equilibrium for the processes that emerge from the preceding level.

Play is the work of childhood.

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