“Le fa ke ne ke batla go direla Modimo ka pelo yotlhe, go ne go lebega a le kgakala thata. Ke ne ke akanya gore ke Modimo yo o setlhogo, yo o batlang fela go re otlhaya. Ke ne ke sa dumele gore a ka kgona go bontsha lorato.”—Rosa, Guatemala. O ne a segofadiwa ka bana borobabobedi. banna ba le bararo le basadi ba le batlhan* mme ka maswabi go setse go hulere ba le babedi le rraabo. Gakologelwa, ke mmele wa gago. Boitekanelo jwa gago bo mo diatleng tsa gago. Ka jalo itlhokomele. Third Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 8-10 Phukwi 2009. Go bona tshedimosetso e e oketsegileng: http://www.foxevents.com.au/Current-Events/2009-Events/IATIS-Conference/Default.asp. bontshahatsa kganya ka lebaka la karolo e sa lokang e aparelang leihlo. /bon. mara/. Jean Piaget was a Swiss scholar who began his studies in intellectual development in the 1920s. Piaget’s first interests were those that dealt with the ways in which animals adapt to their environments and his first scientific article about this subject was published when he was 10 years old. This eventually led him to pursue a Ph.D. in Zoology, which then led him to his second interest in epistemology. Epistemology branches off from philosophy and deals with the origin of knowledge. Piaget believed the origin of knowledge came from Psychology, so he traveled to Paris and began working on the first “standardized intelligence test” at Alfred Binet laboratories; this influenced his career greatly. As he carried out this intelligence testing he began developing a profound interest in the way children’s intellectualism works. As a result, he developed his own laboratory and spent years recording children’s intellectual growth and attempted to find out how children develop through various stages of thinking. This led to Piaget develop four important stages of cognitive development: sensorimotor stage (birth to age 2), preoperational stage (age 2 to 7), concrete-operational stage (ages 7 to 12), and formal-operational stage (ages 11 to 12, and thereafter).