Jean Piaget is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of 20th-century psychology. By common consent Piaget's work is demanding. His ouput was huge - he was the author and editor of some 80 books and he contributed some 500 papers and reports.

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...

This collection of original contributions by leading researchers celebrates the 1996 centenary of the births of the two most seminal figures in education and developmental psychology - Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. Research in their footsteps continues worldwide and is growing.
What are the implications for the future for this extensive programme? Which of the large body of findings has proved most important to current research? Based around five themes, these original contributions cover educational intervention and teaching, social collaboration and learning, cognitive skills and...

We often think of our natural environment as being composed of very many interacting particles, undergoing individual chaotic motions, of which only very coarse averages are perceptible at scales natural to us.