Conceptual development : Piaget's legacy / edited by Ellin Kofsky Scholnick ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky.

Series:

Jean Piaget Symposium series

The Jean Piaget Symposium series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in children--Congresses.

Cognition in children.

Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980--Congresses.

Piaget, Jean.

Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.

Summary:

This volume includes contributions from scholars examining conceptual development in a variety of scientific domains. It will be of interest to all who study children's thinking, whether from psychological, educational, or philosophical perspectives.

Contents:

1. Piaget's Legacy: Heirs to the House That Jean Built / Ellin Kofsky Scholnick 1

Part I How Should We Represent the Workings and Contents of the Mind? 21

2. Conceptual Development in the Child and in the Field: A Personal View of the Piagetian Legacy / Robbie Case 23

3. A New Foundation for Cognitive Development in Infancy: The Birth of the Representational Infant / Andrew N. Meltzoff, M. Keith Moore 53

4. A Reconsideration of Concepts: On the Compatibility of Psychological Essentialism and Context Sensitivity / Susan A. Gelman, Gil Diesendruck 79

5. Explanatory Understanding in Conceptual Development / Frank C. Keil, Kristi L. Lockhart 103

6. The Conceptual Habitat: In What Kind of System Can Concepts Develop? / David Klahr 131

Part II How Does the Child Construct a Mental Model During the Course of Development? What Is the Developmental Origin of This Model? 163

7. A Systemic Interpretation of Piaget's Theory of Knowledge / Rolando Garcia 165

8. Locating Development: Locating Developmental Systems / Susan Oyama 185

9. Developmental Change: Lessons From Microgenesis / Patricia H. Miller, Thomas R. Coyle 209

Part III What Accounts for the Novelties That Are the Products and Producers of Developmental Change? 241

10. The Origin of Piaget's Ideas About Genesis and Development / Jacques Voneche 243

11. Sources of Concepts: A Cultural-Developmental Perspective / Geoffrey B. Saxe 253

12. Levels and Modes of Representation: Issues for the Theory of Conceptual Change and Development / Katherine Nelson 269

13. Sources of Conceptual Change / Susan Carey 293.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at the 26th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society in 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805825002

OCLC:

40646603