Jean Piaget was one of the most significant contributors to our current understanding of how children think and learn, from birth through to adolescence. In this comprehensive and accessible new book, Ann Marie Halpenny and Jan Pettersen capture the key concepts and principles of Piaget's fascinating work on children's thinking, and explore how thinking evolves and develops from infancy through the early years and beyond.
Autorentext
Ann Marie Halpenny is Lecturer in Psychology and Child Development at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Jan Pettersen is Programme Chair for the Early Childhood Education programme at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Inhalt
1. Constructivism: Children as Active Creators of Knowledge and Learning 2. The Landscape of Cognitive Development in Childhood 3. The Building Blocks of Cognitive Development in Childhood 4. The Sensorimotor World 5. Object Permanence: Out of sight, out of mind? 6. The Preoperational World - Symbolic Function Substage 7. Egocentrism and the Preschooler 8. The Preoperational World - Intuitive Thought Substage 9. The Concrete Operational World 10. The Formal Operational World 11. Drawing It All Together References Glossary