Critical readings on Piaget / edited by Leslie Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Leslie, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980.

Piaget, Jean.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (567 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new collection of distinctive studies tracks developments in the most recent published work during the period 1990-95, with an integral guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. A useful and compact text for students and researchers.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; List of tables; List of figures; Foreword; Chronological table of reprinted papers; Foreword to Jean Piaget: Critical Assessments; Chronological table of reprinted articles; Piaget's first theory of equilibrium (1918); Learning and adaptation in the theory of constructivism; Jean Piaget: the unknown sociologist?; Values, knowledge, and Piaget; An exploration of the long-term far-transfer effects following an extended intervention program in the high school science curriculum

The acquisition of conceptual knowledge in science by primary school children: group interaction and the understanding of motion down an inclineThinking as argument; The microgenetic method: a direct means for studying cognitive development; Piaget and measurement II: empirical validation of the Piagetian model; Higher-order structure and relational reasoning: contrasting analogical and thematic relations; A life-span approach to object permanence; Magic: special but not excluded; C

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-78613-1

1-134-78614-X

1-280-31935-6

0-585-45364-0

0-203-43585-0

9780203435854

OCLC:

230204228