Piaget: how best to use his findings?

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Piaget: How Best to Use His Findings?

The desire to make chemistry comprehensible to everwidening segments of secondary school and college students is leading more and more chemistry teachers to apply or extend the findings of the Swiss develo~mental~svcholoeist. Jean Piaget, intheir classrooms. [ ~ e kfor , exam&: THIS 497807 (1972); 52' 14& l5' (1976); 53' 41 (1977); 54,18,90,115 (1978); this issue, pages 165,171 and 1731. These applications and extensions have generated considerahle excitement, and have aiven manv teachersvaluable new insiyh~sint