1st Edition

Developing Thinking Approaches to Children's Cognitive Development

Edited By Sara Meadows Copyright 1983
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

How children’s thinking develops and how it can be developed in education are among the most important questions in psychology. Studies of cognition in adults need to be supplemented by the developmental perspective, which often transforms them. Educational objectives will be most efficiently achieved only if we understand children’s thought. Like all important problems, the nature of... Read more

Notes on the Contributors.  Editor’s Introduction.  1. An Assessment of Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Sara Meadows  2. Modifiability of Cognitive Development Charles J. Brainerd  3. Social Interaction and Cognitive Development: A Review of Post-Piagetian Research Paul Light  4. Assessment of Cognitive Development Ingrid Lunt  5. Metacognitive Development Elizabeth Robinson  6. Literacy and Cognitive Development: A Conceptual Transformation in the Early School Years David R. Olson and Nancy G. Torrance  7. Experience and Cognitive Processing Maggie Mills and Elaine Funnell  8. An Introduction to Soviet Developmental Psychology Andrew Sutton.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Sara Meadows