Equilibration : theory, research, and application / edited by Marilyn H. Appel and Lois S. Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Appel, Marilyn H.

Goldberg, Lois S.

Jean Piaget Society.

Series:

Topics in cognitive development ; v. 1.

Topics in cognitive development ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980--Congresses.

Piaget, Jean.

Equilibration (Cognition).

Cognition in children--Congresses.

Cognition in children.

Child development.

Cognition.

Child psychology.

Educational psychology.

Child Development.

Psychology, Child.

Psychology, Educational.

Child Behavior.

cognition.

Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980.

Medical Subjects:

Child Development.

Cognition.

Psychology, Child.

Psychology, Educational.

Child Behavior.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Kongress.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Plenum Press, ©1977.

Summary:

North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux's wife, Emmaline, is half sister to Dusty's mother, Nola. Horrified at what he's done, the recovered alcoholic turns to an Ojibwe tribe tradition -- the sweat lodge -- for guidance, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. "Our son will be your son now," they tell them. LaRose is quickly absorbed into his new family. Plagued by thoughts of suicide, Nola dotes on him, keeping her darkness at bay. His fierce, rebellious new "sister," Maggie, welcomes him as a co-conspirator who can ease her volatile mother's terrifying moods. Gradually he's allowed shared visits with his birth family, whose sorrow mirrors the Raviches' own. As the years pass, LaRose becomes the linchpin linking the Irons and the Raviches, and eventually their mutual pain begins to heal. But when a vengeful man with a long-standing grudge against Landreaux begins raising trouble, hurling accusations of a cover-up the day Dusty died, he threatens the tenuous peace that has kept these two fragile families whole

Contents:

Part I. Theory

Problems of equilibration / Jean Piaget

Comments on the problems of equilibration / Hans Furth

Piaget's concept of equilibration : biological, logical, and cybernetic roots / Jeanette McCarthy Gallagher

Sequential order and plasticity in early psychological development / J. McVicker Hunt

Part II. Research

Information-processing tendencies in recent experiments in cognitive learning / Barbel Inhelder

Some observations on early cognitive development / Ina C. Uzgiris

Cognitive development during and after the preconceptual period / Jonas Langer

The emergence of the child as grammarian / Lila R. Gleitman, Henry Gleitman, Elizabeth F. Shipley

Environment, experience, and equilibration / Celia Stendler Lavatelli

Application of Piagetian theory to remediation of reasoning / Beth Stephens

Part III. Application

Some implications of Jean Piaget's theory for the education of young children / Lois P. Macomber

Piaget's theory applied to a social studies curriculum / Barbara Z. Presseisen

The application of Piagetian learning theory to a science curriculum project / Marilyn H. Appel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A publication of the Jean Piaget Society."

The majority of the papers in this collection represent the combined proceedings of the first and second annual symposia of the Society, 1971 and 1972, with revisions and extensions of some papers.

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Other Format:

Online version: Equilibration.

ISBN:

0306330016

9780306330018

OCLC:

2873814

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