Growing Minds: A Developmental Theory of Intelligence, Brain, and Education

ISBN-13: 9781138689848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 334 str.

Andreas Demetriou; George Spanoudis

Opis

What does the mind involve? How does intelligence spring from it, differentiating between individuals in understanding and dealing with the world? How does the mind learn and grow over time and how can learning and growth be enhanced by education?

Growing Minds is an interdisciplinary work that seeks to answer these questions through the integration of the main theories relating to the brain and learning – namely the cognitive, developmental and individual difference perspectives. The authors propose an overarching and integrated theory of the developing mind, generating proposals on how this new theory can be applied to educational practice to improve student achievement.

Spis treści

PART I Three traditions of research on the human mind  1 The experimental cognitive tradition  2 The differential tradition  3 Piaget’s theory  4 Neo-Piagetian theories 5 The development of reasoning  6 Awareness and knowledge about the mind  7 Core domains  PART II  An overarching theory of the growing mind  8 The organization of the human mind  9 Cycles and phases of development  10 Recycling and mediation of cognizance 11 Differentiation and binding of mental processes through developmental cycles 12 Personality and emotions in the minds 13 Genetic, psychological, and cultural aspects of the mind  14 Mapping mind-brain development  PART III A developmental theory of instruction  15 School and intellectual development  16 Enhancing intelligence in the laboratory  17 Towards a theory of instruction  18 Educating critical thought  19 Conclusions: towards an overarching theory of the growing mind