Más allá de Piagetcognición adulta y educación

Zusammenfassung

The aim this article is to attempt an approach to a description of the type of thought that adults use. We take for granted in our paper that knowledge about the way adults think is a key aspect in pedagogical, theory and especially in terms of practice when it is directed towards this type of students. With this in mind we organize the text integrating the concept of thought in a wider an more comprehensive construct which is cognition. From this framework we make, first of all, a critical synthesis of the Piaget theory related to cognitive development in as far as it represents the now classical model, but more developed on the subject and, secondly an analysis of some of the most important of the recent theoretical and empirical formulation of adult cognition, such as those derived from information process and from the Lifespan perspective. We finish attempting to offer the state of the question in relation to nuclear aspects of adult thought. The aim of all this is to support processes of educational intervention and research in this field.