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The social knowledge of children: Psychogenesis and social representations

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Original language: Spanish

José Antonio Castorina (Argentina) M.A. in philosophy and Ph.D. in education, University of Porto Alegre (Brazil). Professor of psychology and genetic epistemology at the University of Buenos Aires. Researcher for the Argentine National Council of Scientific Research and director of the research project ‘Epistemological problems in psychogenetic research into social knowledge’ carried out under the auspices of the University of Buenos Aires. Author of numerous books and periodical articles in the field of genetic psychology.

This article forms part of the work carried out on a Jean Piaget Scholarship, awarded in 1997 by the International Bureau of Education and the Swiss Government.

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Castorina, J.A. The social knowledge of children: Psychogenesis and social representations. Prospects 29, 135–150 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736830

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