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"The major purpose of the book is simply to speak clearly for Piaget to anyone who has reasons to listen to what he has to say and who has some background and sophistication in psychology or related disciplines. Who might such a reader be? He certainly might be a psychologist--budding or full-fledged, by vocation or by avocation, with child-developmental interests but also with other interests. He might also be a student of education, psychiatry, philosophy, sociology, and perhaps other fields; Piaget has done and said things which have implications well beyond the boundaries of psychology proper. The book has a secondary aim, important but nonetheless secondary: to evaluate Piaget's work, both methodologically and in view of related work done by others. The first ten chapters serve the primary objective, while the last two, and particularly the last one, attempt to fulfill the secondary aim"--Preface.
"Part One is given over to a presentation of the theoretical hypotheses. It was well to begin with these since the experiments, taken up in Part Two, were inspired by them. Finally, there is the critique (Part Three). It seems clear that Professor Flavell is more interested in the experiments than in the theory, which sometimes gives me the impression--perhaps not of having been misunderstood, but, if you will--of having been understood on certain issues more from without than from within. But since the great majority of readers are not likely to be primarily oriented toward the theory either, the emphasis he has chosen is probably the most useful one. Professor Flavell concluded his book with a critical section that may lead the reader to take his positive comments about the system much more seriously than if he had blindly and uncritically gone along with me on all points"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).