梅杰奥把观念变革的概念与成人的发展联系在一起的理论引发了一场争论。一方面有人认为他在成人教育和成人学习中过份强调社会的作用;而另一方面又有人批评他的理论缺少对社会的评价,在个体与社会的辩证关系中偏重于个体理论,相应地忽视了社会的作用。显然在理解关于观念变革与成人的发展的观点时,评论家们的确在本质上出现了失误,因为梅杰奥没有对生命过程中的社会因素做充分的研究。这导致他用普通心理学中的发展去代替观念变革。观念变革是关于改变与发展的一个最好的设想(一个新 Medgeo’s theory of the notion of conceptual change linked to the development of adults triggered a debate. On the one hand, some people think that he overemphasized the role of society in adult education and adult learning; on the other hand, he criticized his theory for lacking in the evaluation of society and emphasized the individual theory in the dialectical relationship between the individual and society. Accordingly, Neglected the role of society. Obviously, commentators did indeed make mistakes in understanding the notion of change of mind and the development of adults, as Meggio did not adequately study the social aspects of life. This led him to replace the notion of change with the development in ordinary psychology. Concept change is one of the best ideas about change and development (a new one