The Microgenetic Method

One of the arguments that explain the relevance of this book is the overwhelming lack of knowledge that the current literature throws on the Inhelderian microgenetic method. The place of this method is definitely ungrateful and has remained incomprehensibly hidden. All indications are that it seems to have lagged behind many of the brightest heads in developmental psychology, those who made up the Geneva school.

The book aims to illustrate how Inhelderian microgenesis emerges in the landscape of cognitive development as a new object of study. More than ruptures with respect to the problems of the normative subject, the Inhelderian project entails both conceptual and methodological displacements. In this new map, the psychological subject takes a predominant place, and does so in terms of the cognitive functioning of the subject in relation to situations of resolution. This functioning is studied on the basis of the microgenetic method, which makes it possible to identify the role of mental schemas, their combinations and recompositions in the face of specific and problematic situations.

The totally original version of the microgenetic method that is delivered from the Inhelderian legacy in this book, not only recovers its basic sense but also advances in the direction of some indications that Inhelder herself had pointed out. This renewed object of study recovers a subject, with a status in terms of its own models, its theories and its dynamics.

Starting from a demanding and knowledgeable reading of Inhelder's work. This knowledge becomes the best criterion to point out an updated path of the work with concepts and tools resulting from recent research but articulated with a microgenetic vision coming from the most orthodox tradition. The bet consists of advancing from the legacy of Inhelder and her team and projecting it as a methodological alternative for current research in developmental studies.

Rebeca Puche-Navarro obtained her undergraduate degree at the Universidad Nacional of Colombia and then at the University of Geneva subsequently her D:E:A in the E.P.H.E in Paris and her Ph.D at the University of Geneva. This itinerary allowed her to have first-hand experience with the primary sources of the Genevan spirit. She was professor at the Universidad del Valle where she formed a team at the Psychology Cognition and Culture Research Center, where she tried to work with much of that Geneva legacy. She is an Emeritus Researcher of Colciencias. Her main area of research are related with humour development and scientific reasoning.

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Julio César Ossa is a Senior Researcher by Colciencias. Professor-researcher at the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Member of the Rede Iberoamericana de Pesquisadores em História da Psicologia and the Grupo de Historia de la Psicología de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología and Member of the American Psychological Association (APA). Coordinator of the Developmental Psychology Node and member of the Editorial Committee of ASCOFAPSI. Professor Julio has been part of the Cognition and Representational Development Group for 20 years and has devoted much of his research to the study of early childhood and development.