Critical readings on Piaget / edited by Leslie Smith.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

Chapter 1 Piaget's first theory of equilibrium (1918) / Jacques Vonèche -- chapter 2 Learning and adaptation in the theory of constructivism / Ernst von Glasersfeld -- chapter 3 Jean Piaget: the unknown sociologist? / Richard F. Kitchener -- chapter 4 Values, knowledge, and Piaget / Terrance Brown -- chapter 5 An exploration of the long-term far-transfer effects following an extended intervention program in the high school science curriculum / Philip Adey -- chapter 6 The acquisition of conceptual knowledge in science by primary school children -- Christine Howe, Andrew Tolmie and / Group interaction and the understanding of motion down an incline -- chapter 7 Thinking as argument / Deanna Kuhn -- chapter 8 The microgenetic method -- Robert S. Siegler and Kevin Crowley / A direct means for studying cognitive development -- chapter 9 Piaget and measurement II -- Trevor G. Bond / Empirical validation of the Piagetian model -- chapter 10 Higher-order structure and relational reasoning -- Usha Goswami and Ann L. Brown / Contrasting analogical and thematic relations -- chapter 11 A life-span approach to object permanence / Eugene V. Subbotsky -- chapter 12 Magic -- Carl N. Johnson and Paul L. Harris / Special but not excluded -- chapter 13 Conditional reasoning with false premises -- Henry Markovits / Fantasy and information retrieval -- chapter 14 The ontology of order / Brendan McGonigle -- chapter 15 Children and arithmetic / Peter Bryant -- chapter 16 Representation and reasoning in early numerical development -- Catherine Sophian / Counting, conservation, and comparisons between sets -- chapter 17 Beyond competence and performance -- Michael Chapman and Michelle L. McBride / Children's class inclusion strategies, superordinate class cues, and verbal justifications -- chapter 18 The development of metalogical understanding / David Moshman -- chapter 19 Judgements and justifications -- Leslie Smith / Criteria for the attribution of children's knowledge in Piagetian research -- chapter 20 The cognitive basis of uncertainty / James P. Byrnes -- chapter 21 Proof construction -- Carol Foltz, Willis F. Overton and Robert B. Ricco / Adolescent development from inductive to deductive problem-solving strategies.

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