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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scholnick, Ellin Kofsky.

Series:

Jean Piaget Symposium series.

The Jean Piaget Symposium series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980--Congresses.

Piaget, Jean.

Cognition in children--Congresses.

Cognition in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines a key issue in current cognitive theories - the nature of representation. Each chapter is characterized by attempts to frame hot topics in cognitive development within the landscape of current developmental theorizing and the past legacy of genetic epistemology. The chapters address four questions that are fundamental to any developmental line of inquiry:How should we represent the workings and contents of the mind?How does the child construct mental models during the course of development?What are the origins of these models? andWha

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1 Piaget's Legacy: Heirs to the House That Jean Built; Part I HOW SHOULD WE REPRESENT THE WORKINGS AND CONTENTS OF THE MIND?; Chapter 2 Conceptual Development in the Child and in the Field: A Personal View of the Piagetian Legacy; Chapter 3 A New Foundation for Cognitive Development in Infancy: The Birth of the Representational Infant; Chapter 4 A Reconsideration of Concepts: On the Compatibility of Psychological Essentialism and Context Sensitivity; Chapter 5 Explanatory Understanding in Conceptual Development

Chapter 6 The Conceptual Habitat: In What Kind of System Can Concepts Develop?Part II HOW DOES THE CHILD CONSTRUCT A MENTAL MODEL DURING THE COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT? WHAT IS THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGIN OF THIS MODEL?; Chapter 7 A Systemic Interpretation of Piaget's Theory of Knowledge; Chapter 8 Locating Development: Locating Developmental Systems; Chapter 9 Developmental Change: Lessons From Microgenesis; Part III WHAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE NOVELTIES THAT ARE THE PRODUCTS AND PRODUCERS OF DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE?; Chapter 10 The Origin of Piaget's Ideas About Genesis and Development

Chapter 11 Sources of Concepts: A Cultural- Developmental PerspectiveChapter 12 Levels and Modes of Representation: Issues for the Theory of Conceptual Change and Development; Chapter 13 Sources of Conceptual Change; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4106-0388-1

9786612325540

1-282-32554-X

0-585-12138-9

9781410603883

OCLC:

437087320