The concept of creativity in Piaget and Vygotsky

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the psychological development of creativity theme in the L. Piaget and Vygotsky's works. With such purpose we will examine this issue in the production of authors with notable recognition and prestige in the national and international psychological literature. We performed a systematic bibliographical review of their original works and did compare their postulates to highlight the similarities and differences. Both of them have dedicated part of their studies to investigate the relation between the development of the psyche and production of the new. They defended the idea that to understand creativity it is necessary to investigate, at different times of the course of human life, the psychological development of the creation and its entanglement with the environment/social relations. Piaget elaborated a Genetic Epistemology and gave a particular importance to the creative process, taking as an assumption the idea that subject is an active when interacting with the world, creatively building knowledge. Vygotsky claims a Marxist Psychology and presupposes that the reality is possible to be captured by thought and actively transformed, through the mediation of culture.