Les Théories Implicites du Développement et de l’Education

The terms «implicit developmental and educational theories» refer to parents’ and teachers’ knowledge of developmental processes and educational action. The author presents a synthesis of studies concerned mainly with children’s socioemotional development, published between 1980 and 1986 and carried out in Europe as well as in the United States. She focuses mainly on studies of authors who work within the cognitive development framework. She also presents studies of authors with regard to other aspects of personality which can be integrated into a constructive framework of educational action, within the larger framework of action theory.