Piaget's Conception of Evolution

Piaget's Conception of Evolution
Author: John Gerard Messerly
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1996
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780847682430

The first full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist. Messerly traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through its further developments to its mature formulation as 'genetic epistemology.' Messerly analyzes Piaget's constructivist theory of the evolution of human knowledge as continuous with, yet partially transcending, the biological process of adaptation to the environment. Messerly's study serves as an invitation to further explorations with Paiget's theory and will interest philosophers, biologists, and psychologists.

Constructive Evolution

Constructive Evolution
Author: Michael Chapman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1988-06-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521367127

This book represents an attempt to understand the evolution of Jean Piaget's basic ideas in the context of his own intellectual development. Piaget sought to elucidate human knowledge by studying its origins and development. In this book, Michael Chapman applies the same method to Piaget's own thinking. Dr Chapman shows that some of the Swiss psychologist's essential ideas originated in adolescent philosophical speculations about the relation between science and value. These same ideas were then developed step by step in Piaget's investigations of children's cognitive development. Dr Chapman claims that Piaget's use of developmental psychology as a means for addressing questions about the evolution of knowledge has been misunderstood by psychologists approaching his work exclusively from the perspectives of their own discipline. Reconstructing Piaget's intellectual biography makes possible a better understanding of the questions he originally posed and the answers he subsequently provided. Dr Chapman concludes with an assessment of Piaget's relevance for contemporary psychology and philosophy and suggests ways in which Piagetian theory might be further developed.

Behaviour and Evolution

Behaviour and Evolution
Author: Jean Piaget
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135658129

This book was first published in 1979.

Play and Development

Play and Development
Author: Artin Goncu
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2007-01-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1135592438

Children's play is a universal human activity, and one that serves a significant purpose in personal development.Throughout this volume, which is an extension of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, the editors and contributors explore assumptions about play and its status as a unique and universal activity in humans.As a whole, Play

Cognitive Development Today

Cognitive Development Today
Author: Peter A A Sutherland
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 219
Release: 1992-05-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473914000

`At the end of the day, what is crucial is to enable educationalists to promote and apply their own metatheories and models of child development which they feel comfortable with and which enable children to develop. ... Peter Sutherland should be credited with making a significant contribution towards achieving this fundamental goal' - Educational Psychology in Practice ` ... this book deserves to become a classic in the field. Will appeal alike to academics and students in higher education, and to serving teachers- BPS: Educational Review Section This book provides a general outline of the dominant schools of thought on cognitive development, with a focus on Piaget. His views are outlined and a range of critical responses and alternatives are detailed. The author examines the application of these schools of thought to teaching pre-school, primary and secondary children. Each chapter includes a summary and questions for discussion. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.

Getting it Wrong from the Beginning

Getting it Wrong from the Beginning
Author: Kieran Egan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0300094337

The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more right today. So argues one of the most original and highly regarded educational theorists of our time in 'Getting It Wrong from the Beginning'. Kieran Egan explains how we have come to take mistaken concepts about education for granted and why this dooms our attempts at educational reform.

Piaget, Evolution, and Development

Piaget, Evolution, and Development
Author: Jonas Langer
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 1998-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135690995

This volume brings the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, with chapters from leading researchers in both areas. For cognitive developmentalists and primatologists and comparative psychologists.

The Construction Of Reality In The Child

The Construction Of Reality In The Child
Author: Jean Piaget
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136316949

This is Volume XX of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Initially published in 1954, in Piaget’s words the study of sensorimotor or practical intelligence in the first two years of development has taught us how the child, at first directly assimilating the external environment to his own activity, later, in order to extend this assimilation, forms an increasing number of schemata which are both more mobile and better able to inter-coordinate. This study looks at the second part of evolution of sensorimotor intelligence, as the description of behavior no longer suffices to account for these new products of intellectual activity; it is the subject’s own interpretation of things which we must now try to analyze.

Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society

Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society
Author: Yama, Hiroshi
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2019-11-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1799818136

Studies on human thinking have focused on how humans solve a problem and have discussed how human thinking can be rational. A juxtaposition between psychology and sociology allows for a unique perspective of the influence on human thought and morality on society. Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society is an in-depth critical resource that provides comprehensive research on thinking and morality and its influence on societal norms as well as how people adapt themselves to the novel circumstances and phenomena that characterize the contemporary world, including low birthrate, the reduction of violence, and globalization. Furthermore, cultural differences are considered with research targeted towards problems specific to a culture. Featuring a wide range of topics such as logic education, cognition, and knowledge management systems, this book is ideal for academicians, sociologists, researchers, social scientists, psychologists, and students.

The Origin of Concepts

The Origin of Concepts
Author: Susan Carey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2011
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199838801

New in paperback-- A transformative book on the way we think about the nature of concepts and the relations between language and thought.