Piaget, Vygotsky and beyond : future issues for developmental psychology and education

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Title:

Author:

Smith, Leslie, 1943-

ISBN:

9780415147439

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Physical Description:

xi, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

The chapters in this book were presented at the Piaget-Vygotsky Centenary Conference held in Brighton, Apr. 11-12, 1996.

Contents:

Educational implementation and teaching : 'school knowledge' and psychological theory / Michael Beveridge -- Piaget and Vygotsky : a necessary marriage for effective educational intervention / Michael Shayer -- Psychological theory that 'works' in the classroom / Kathy Sylva -- Psychological development as a social process / Gerard Duveen -- Revisiting young Jean Piaget in Neuchâtel among his partners in learning / Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont -- Piaget, Vygotsky and the social dimension / Gerry P.T. Finn -- Piaget, mathematics and Vygotsky / Peter Bryant -- Socializing intelligence / Lauren B. Resnick and Sharon Nelson-Le Gall -- Expertise and cognitive development : seeking a connection / Robin N. Campbell -- Measuring development : examples from Piaget's theory / Trevor G. Bond -- Capturing dynamic structuralism in the laboratory / Margaret Chalmers and Brendan McGonigle -- Why measure development? / James Ridgway -- Children's understanding of permission and obligation / Paul Harris and Maria Núñez -- Necessary knowledge and its assessment in intellectual development / Leslie Smith -- Modality and modal reasoning / Peter Tomlinson -- The view from giants' shoulders / Deanna Kuhn.

Personal Subject:

Piaget, Jean, 1896-

Vygotskiĭ, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934.

Subject Term:

Developmental psychology.

Educational psychology.

Added Author:

Smith, Leslie, 1943-

Dockrell, Julie.

Tomlinson, Peter.

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Summary

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 domains, the measurement of development and the development of modal understanding.