1st Edition

Piaget, Vygotsky & Beyond Future issues for developmental psychology and education

Edited By Leslie Smith, Julie Dockrell, Peter Tomlinson Copyright 1997
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky are arguably the two most influential figures in psychological research. Although born in the same year of 1896, it is only over the last decade or so that the work of Vygotsky has rivalled that of Piaget in importance in the Western world. This collection of original contributions by leading researchers celebrates the 1996 centenary of the births of the two most... Read more

Introduction, Part 1 Educational intervention and teaching 1 Educational implementation and teaching: ‘School knowledge’ and psychological theory 2 Piaget and Vygotsky: A necessary marriage for effective educational intervention 3 Psychological theory that ‘works’ in the classroom Part 2 Social collaboration and learning 4 Psychological development as a social process 5 Revisiting young Jean Piaget in Neuchâtel among his partners in learning 6 Piaget, Vygotsky and the social dimension Part 3 Cognitive skills and domain specificity 7 Piaget, mathematics and Vygotsky 8 Socializing intelligence 9 Expertise and cognitive development: Seeking a connection Part 4 Measurement of development 10 Measuring development: Examples from Piaget’s theory 11 Capturing dynamic structuralism in the laboratory 12 Why measure development? Part 5 Development of modal understanding 13 Children’s understanding of permission and obligation 14 Necessary knowledge and its assessment in intellectual development 15 Modality and modal reasoning

Biography

Leslie Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. His previous publications include Jean Piaget: Critical Assessments (4 vols, 1992) and Critical Readings on Piaget (1996). Julie Dockrell is Senior Lecturer in Child Development and Learning at the Institute of Education, London University. Peter Tomlinson is Reader in Education in the School of Education, University of Leeds.