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The Constructivism of Jean Piaget: for a "Moral of Thinking" and a "Logic of Action". The thinking is intrinsic argumentative and rhetorical, tending to build a world outlook and to join a particular type of Weltanschauung. Regarding the thinking of Jean Piaget, they propose us a reflexion starting from the psycho-genetical theory of the intellect through a constructivist methodology depending on the symbolic dimension of the language and on the ontogenetic stages of cognition. This genetic epistemology starts from the circularity of cognitive subject-object-subject, specific to purchases of new knowledge and to mental-psychological development of human beings, Piaget linking the human psyche and physical and mathematical concepts through the space, time, object and causal concepts. In this context, Piaget`s theoretical foundations find their application in pedagogy, in its view of education with social and quasi-soteriological meanings. Constructivism is present in contemporary concerns of postmodern psychology, Piaget`s model as being present in contemporary pedagogy which must take into account the fact that sensory and motor activity underlies the mental images which are constructed, in turn, through the operational symbols appropriated by the individual as intellectual representations.

Keywords: constructivism, education, epistemology, psychology, maturation, methodology