This article is an introduction to a set of papers presented at the Piaget: Constructivism and Beyond symposium held at the 1998 Spring ACS Meeting in Dallas, TX, and at the 16th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Ann Arbor, MI. It revisits the basics of the theory introduced to the chemical education community by J. D. Herron in a 1975 JCE article (1). Piagetian theory has influenced our perspective on learning and learners during these 25 years, and it continues to be a significant part of the foundation of emerging theories about personal construction of knowledge and learning.
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