Desarrollo cognitivo y educación. Tomo 1

Desarrollo cognitivo y educación. Tomo 1
Author: José Antonio Castorina
Publisher: Grupo Planeta Spain
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2012-10-31
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9501200302

Desarrollo cognitivo y educación es una obra que se despliega en dos libros complementarios. El libro I, Los inicios del conocimiento, contiene una reflexión crítica de las principales teorías en este campo (piagetiana, cognitiva, sociocultural), incluyendo los novedosos aportes de la neuropsicología. Aborda los orígenes del conocimiento en los niños pequeños, presentando un panorama acerca de cómo producen y manejan símbolos, cómo ejercen un pensamiento discursivo y elaboran complejas categorías a través del lenguaje para comprender el mundo físico y social en el que viven. El libro II, Procesos del conocimiento y contenidos específicos, de próxima aparición, completará la obra. Una obra que, a diferencia de las tradicionalmente producidas en el campo, no elige un contexto explicativo de carácter etáreo, por lo cual no responde solamente a las etapas de desarrollo o ciclos escolares. Por el contrario, profundiza en la influencia de la especificidad de los diferentes contenidos a la hora de comprender cómo el conocimiento puede convertirse en una herramienta simbólica poderosa, dentro y fuera de la escuela. Así, los estudios que la obra incluye nos ofrecen la imagen de un ser humano mucho más competente de lo que tradicionalmente se había postulado y con enormes potencialidades, que la educación puede contribuir a desarrollar activamente. Desarrollo cognitivo y educación es, así, una obra que muestra el estado del arte a nivel internacional, que pretende servir de referencia futura para los interesados en los estudios cognitivos y su relación con la educación.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
Author: Alberto Rosa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108340830

Sociocultural psychology is a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This international overview of the field provides an antireductionist and comprehensive account of how experience and behaviour arise from human action with cultural materials in social practices. The outcome is a vision of the dynamics of sociocultural and personal life in which time and developmental constructive transformations are crucial. This second edition provides expanded coverage of how particular cultural artefacts and social practices shape experience and behaviour in the realms of art and aesthetics, economics, history, religion and politics. Special attention is also paid to the development of identity, the self and personhood throughout the lifespan, while retaining the emphasis on experience and development as key features of sociocultural psychology.

Hippocampus

Hippocampus
Author: Douglas D. Burman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2023-07-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1837687129

Ever since side effects from bilateral hippocampectomy were identified in Henry Molaison (patient “HM”) during the 1950s, a critical role of the hippocampus has been recognized in the formation of declarative episodic memories. Other cognitive functions have since been proposed, such as a role in navigation, but memory has often been suggested to explain hippocampal involvement. Proving a distinct functional role in cognition is difficult, as memory can be implicated in most cognitive activities. Even when a behavior relies on memory, however, the functionality of the hippocampus extends far beyond, especially evident during activities requiring interactions between cognitive systems. Relational memory is supported by hippocampal connections with widespread regions of the cortex; these interconnections also play a fundamental role in children’s writing abilities and expertise in musical performance. Besides enhancing individual lives, such activities can play a vital role in sustaining cultural values across generations. Interactions with the environment that do not directly depend on mnemonic activity can affect plasticity in hippocampal connections, modified through natural chemicals, pharmacological drugs, and non-pharmacological behaviors. Navigational properties of the hippocampal system are not limited to memory, containing the same navigational elements as our Global Positional System (GPS). Even cognitive deficits arising from hippocampal lesions in “HM” were not limited to memory, as they included deficits in understanding cognitive relationships available in visual scenes, novel sentence contexts, and humorous situations. This book shows an expansive role of the hippocampus in cognition that goes beyond its recognized role in generating new episodic memories.

When Children Draw Gods

When Children Draw Gods
Author: Pierre-Yves Brandt
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2023-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030944298

This open access book explores how children draw god. It looks at children’s drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process, it also contributes to our understanding of this concept, its origins, and its development. This intercultural work brings together scholars from different disciplines and countries, including Switzerland, Japan, Russia, Iran, Brazil, and the Netherlands. It does more than share the results of their research and analysis. The volume also critically examines the contributions and limitations of this methodology. In addition, it also reflects on the new empirical and theoretical perspectives within the broader framework of the study of this concept. The concept of god is one of the most difficult to grasp. This volume offers new insights by focusing on the many different ways children depict god throughout the world. Readers will discover the importance of spatial imagery and color choices in drawings of god. They will also learn about how the divine's emotional expression correlates to age, gender, and religiosity as well as strategies used by children who are prohibited from representing their god.

Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future

Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future
Author: Maria C.D.P. Lyra
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2021-02-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030641759

This book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or her socio-cultural world. Memory is approached as a functional adaption to the environment using the resources of the past in preparation for action in the present. Imagination is tightly related to memory in that both aim to escape the confines of the concrete here-and-now situation; however, while memory is primarily oriented to the past, imagination looks to the future. Both are embedded in the exchanges with the social and cultural milieu, and thus theorizing them has relied on key ideas from Lev Vygotsky, Frederic Bartlett and Mikhail Bakhtin. Thus, this book aims to integrate theories of remembering and imagining, through rich empirical studies in diverse cultural settings and concerning the development of self and identity. These two groups of studies compose the subparts that organize the book.

Moving and Interacting in Infancy and Early Childhood

Moving and Interacting in Infancy and Early Childhood
Author: Silvia Español
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3031089235

This book introduces studies on infant and early childhood development that are in a permanent dialogue with the psychology of music, the philosophy of mind, and human movement studies. They are based on an innovative framework that combines embodied cognition, the multimodal approach to child development, and the second-person perspective in social cognition. This frame of reference allows authors to revisit relevant topics in developmental psychology, such as adult-infant interactions; early intersubjective experiences; the development of perceptual, verbal and gestural communication skills; as well as the complexity of play in infancy and early childhood. In the field of infancy and early childhood studies, the three viewpoints brought together in this volume had a clear innovative impact. Embodied psychology showed the body to be the primary agent in the interactions that shape the infant's psyche. The second-person perspective exhibited the direct, transparent, I-Thou contact involved in the first patterns of reciprocity between adult and infant, and the multimodal theory of perceptual development revealed an infant immersed in a multisensory environment conveying information to all perceptual systems as a unified experience. The studies presented in this volume combine these three viewpoints and link them through the use of analytical tools and concepts from the temporal arts (music and dance). This way of conducting empirical research on some central topics in early infancy led to an aesthetic conception of development that emphasizes bodily experience, temporal affects and their intertwining with symbolic capacities Moving and Interacting in Infancy and Early Childhood: An Embodied, Intersubjective, and Multimodal Approach to the Interpersonal World will provide innovative tools for developmental and cognitive psychologists studying the development of early socio-cognitive skills in infants and young children, and will also serve as a rich source of information for researchers and practitioners in other fields, such as education and nursing, who can benefit from cutting-edge knowledge in developmental sciences.

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Total Pages: 396
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The Promise of Educational Psychology

The Promise of Educational Psychology
Author: Richard E. Mayer
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9788420535241

Covering the latest advanced in the field, this brief, easy-to-read introduction to educational psychology focuses on learning and teaching in subject areas and on helping students develop specific cognitive processes that are required to accomplish real academic tasks. Shows how psychological theories and research influence the development of better instructional practices and how real instructional problems influence the development of better psychological theories and research. Deals with the educational psychology of five major subject areas -- reading fluency, reading comprehension, writing, mathematics, and science. Includes three to six major cognitive processes involved in mastering the subject area in each chapter. Analyzes the types of knowledge that are needed to perform academic tasks in the domain in several chapters. Provides concrete examples and connections between cognitive research and practical educational problems. Covers the core advances in educational psychology. For educators at all levels.

Human Development

Human Development
Author: Grace J. Craig
Publisher: Pearson Educación
Total Pages: 726
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9789684445161

Designed for students from a wide range of backgrounds, this text takes a chronological and interdisciplinary approach to human development. With its focus on context and culture, the 8/E illustrates that the status of human development is inextricably embedded in a study of complex and changing cultures.

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