Resumen

ARNAEZ MUGA, Pablo. SOME PEDAGOGICAL PRINCIPLESDERIVED FROM PIAGET’S THEORY APPLIED IN THE LANGUAGE AREA. Paradìgma [online]. 2005, vol.26, n.1, pp.07-34. ISSN 1011-2251.

All the areas of the human knowledge have been subsidiaries of the scientific and humanistic theories prevailing at the historical time of their emergence. The National Basic Curriculum and the Programs of the native language teaching, implemented in Venezuela (Ministry of Education, 1987, 1997, 1998),  are also sustained in some learning theories. In this paper, we will deal with Jean Piaget’s Psychogenetic theory, and more specifically in some principles based on this theory that may be applied in the language class.  With this, it is intended to contrast the theory and the application and to prove the practical implications derived of this interrelation. The inquiry, based on a corpus constituted by the Programs of Language and Literature of the First and Second Stage of Basic Education is a descriptive-analytic and explanatory one. According to the reflection about some piagetians principles and the valuation of their  applicability, it may be concluded that:  (a) Piaget`s  theory highlights in the programs as part of their grounds; (b) the educator should understand it in a better way in order to use it adequately; (c) the theory is valid in the practice of our education;  and (d) it many serve as theoretical and practical support in the school designs and programmings.

Palabras clave : educational reforms; psychogenetic theory; active learning; social interaction.