Offers a fascinating and understandable account of childhood development for anyone—education and psychology students, day care center workers and nursery school teachers, and parents. Jean Piaget is arguably the most...
A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks
'Do children have anything to teach teachers? Jean Piaget believes that they do. As a beginning teacher, I focused on elaborate preparation of explanations and demonstrations on content. To piaget...
This valuable classroom work roots Piaget's work in its historical context, and then provides dozens of classroom-based examples of how that work helps teachers understand the lives of children.
Piaget's Theory, a Primer
Jean Piaget's theories about the development of intelligence and their implications for educational practice are explored. Before Piaget began studying the intellectual processes of children, researchers regarded them as "little...
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Opposing John Locke's notion of the mind as a tabula rasa , Piaget rather follows Jean Jacques Rousseau's idea that the child plays a very active role in the growth of intelligence ( Singer and Revenson , Piaget Primer , 13 ) .
This book, now in its second edition, brings together the best available understandings of human development from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Singer, D.G. and Revensen, T.A. (1996) A Piaget Primer: How a child thinks. London: Plume Books. Offers a practical guide to child development for practitioners working in early years settings. Sutherland, P. (1992) Cognitive ...