Microdevelopment: Transition Processes in Development and Learning

ISBN-13: 9780521660532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 368 str.

Nira Granott; Jim Parziale; George Butterworth

Opis

Microdevelopment is the process of change in abilities, knowledge and understanding during short time-spans. This book presents a new process-oriented view of development and learning based on recent innovations in psychological research. Instead of characterizing abilities at different ages, researchers investigate processes of development and learning that evolve through time to determine progressive changes. With contributions from the foremost researchers in the field, this study will be essential reading for all interested in cognitive and developmental science.

Recenzje

"The task of attaining optimal outcomes for learners from a range of cultural backgrounds remains a major social challenge. The research program outlined in Microdevelopment could help us meet that challenge." - David MacLennan, Ph.D. The University College of the Cariboo

Spis treści

Introduction: Microdevelopment Nira Granott and Jim Parziale; Part I. Variability: 1. Microgenetic srudies in self-explanation Robert S. Siegler; 2. Microdevelopment and dynamic systems: Applications to infant motor development Esther Thelen and Daniela Corbetta; 3. Looking at the hands through time: A microgenetic perspective on learning and instruction Susan Goldin-Meadow and Martha Wagner Alibali; Part II. Transition Mechanisms: 4. A multi-component system that constructs knowledge: Insights from microgenetic study Deanna Kuhn; 5. Bridging to the unknown: a transition mechanism in learning and development Nira Granott, Kurt W. Fischer and Jim Parziale; 6. Observing the dynamics of construction: children building bridges and new ideas Jim Parziale; Part III. Micro- and macrodevelopment: 7. Interacting time scales in personality (and cognitive) development: intentions, emotions and emergent from Marc D. Lewis; 8. How microdevelopment creates macrodevelopment: reiterated sequences, backward transitions and the Zone of Current Development Nira Granott; 9. Macro- and microdevelopment research: assumptions, research strategies, constraints and utilities Kang Lee and Annette Karmiloff-Smith; Part IV. Context: 10. Notebooks as windows on learning: the case of a science-into-ESL programme Rochel Gelman, Laura Romo and Wendy S. Francis; 11. Darwin's construction of the theory of evolution: microdevelopment of explanations of variation and change in species Kurt W. Fischer and Zheng Yan; 12. Developmental dynamics, intentional action and fuzzy sets Paul Van Geert; Indexes.