A students' guide to Piaget /
A Students' Guide to Piaget is a students' guide to the work of Jean Piaget, one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary psychology. It discusses Piaget's multifarious epistemological interests, his developmental psychology, and his solutions to the problems of mathematical e...
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Pergamon Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | [1969] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Commonwealth and international library of science, technology, engineering and liberal studies. Psychology division
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Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080064079 |
Summary: |
A Students' Guide to Piaget is a students' guide to the work of Jean Piaget, one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary psychology. It discusses Piaget's multifarious epistemological interests, his developmental psychology, and his solutions to the problems of mathematical epistemology. Piaget's contributions to education, as well as his early work on children's language and cognitive development, are also examined. This book is comprised of 10 chapters and begins with an overview of the major problem that confronts students when they first encounter Piaget's work: why he has done it. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 156 pages) : illustrations. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-150). |
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9781483154824 1483154823 |
Index Number: | BF721 |
CLC: | B844.1 |
Contents: | The problems to be solved -- The basic concepts of Piaget's psychology -- The sensorimotor phase and pre-operational thinking -- Operational thinking -- A brief summary of developmental periods in Piaget's psychology -- Piaget's solutions to the problems of mathematical epistemology -- More about genetic epistemology -- Piaget's contributions to education -- Language and cognitive development -- Some points of criticism. |