The Child's Conception of the World: A 20th-Century Classic of Child Psychology
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A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. What conceptions of the world does the child naturally form at the different stages of its development? To what extent does the child distinguish the external world from an internal or subjective world and what limits does he or she draw between the self and objective reality? These questions make up the first problem, the child's notion of reality.
A second fundamental problem is the significance of explanations put forward by the child. What use does he or she make of the notions of cause and of law? Is the form of explanation presented by the child a new type? These and like questions form the second problem, the child's notion of causality.Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:082260213X
ISBN13:9780822602132
Release Date:September 1992
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Length:397 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:8.6" x 1.1" x 5.5"
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The developing creating child
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Piaget provides a developmental model of human intelligence. He outlines distinct stages beginning with the sensory- motor stage and shows how in each stages the child integrates what has been previously learned in order to expand and develop his powers. Instead of focusing on 'inherent and deterministic drives, or on archetypal eternal patterns, he focuses on capabilities which emerge through interaction between the changing inner world of the child and the world he meets. Piaget puts emphasis on Mankind as a 'creating and constructing creature'. His writing is complex and often abstract and difficult. But his ideas have been basic to the whole study of child development.
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