Critical Readings on Piaget

ISBN-13: 9780415133173 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 568 str.

Leslie Smith; Leslie Smith

Opis

This volume is a follow-up to Piaget: Critical Assessments a collection of 83 papers dealing with the critique of Piaget's work in psychology, education and philosophy during the period 1950-90. This new collection tracks developments in the published work of Piaget during the period 1990-95, with a guide and editorial commentary by Leslie Smith. Starting with Piaget's epistemology, a major intellectual resource in departmental psychology and eduction, it sets out the main elements of his position in relation to 21 papers, dealing with equilibration and equilibrium, education and social development, reasoning development, number development and modal knowledge. A conclusion examines the psychological and educational assessment of Piaget's epistemology. This collection of studies during the last five years provides examples from current research in this area. It should provide a useful text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers.

O autorze

Professor Leslie Smith