““In the opening chapter Piaget describes equilibrium as “…a process leading from certain states of near equilibrium to others, qualitatively different, through multiple disequilibria and reequilibrations” (Piaget, 1975/1985, p. 3). Equilibrium must be taken as a dynamic equilibrium: as a property of a process that is constantly changing as far as its elements are concerned but that has found a stable form. This stability is also described elsewhere in the book as closure of the structure. The systems are “…open in the sense that they involve exchanges with the environment and closed in the sense that they constitute cycles” (Piaget, 1975/1985, p. 4).””
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