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1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Series |
Jean Piaget Symposia Series |
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Jean Piaget Symposia Series
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Development in Context: An Introduction; SECTION I ECOSYSTEMS, AFFORDANCES, TRANSACTIONS, AND SKILLS: THEORIES OF PERSON/SITUATION INTERACTION; Chapter 1: The Ecology of Cognitive Development: Research Models and Fugitive Findings; Chapter 2: The Intention to Use a Specific Affordance: A Conceptual Framework for Psychology; Chapter 3: Co-Constructive Metatheory for Psychology: Implications for an Analysis of Families as Specific Social Contexts for Development |
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Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Competence: How Context Contributes Directly to SkillSECTION II CONTEXT AND THE ACQUISITION OF SOCIOCULTURAL KNOWLEDGE; Chapter 5: Children's Guided Participation and Participatory Appropriation in Sociocultural Activity; Chapter 6: Mediating the Environment: Communicating, Appropriating, and Developing Graphic Representations of Place; Chapter 7: Patterns of Interaction in the Co-Construction of Knowledge: Separate Minds, Joint Effort, and Weird Creatures; SECTION III SOCIAL SYSTEMS AS SPECIFIC CONTEXTS FOR DEVELOPMENT |
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Chapter 8: Socialization of Cognition: The Distancing ModelChapter 9: Cultural Organisms in the Development of Great Potential: Referees, Termites, and the Aspen Music Festival; SECTION IV COMMENTARIES; Chapter 10: Where Is the Social Environment? A Commentary on Reed; Chapter 11: Rumble or Revolution: A Commentary; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
In this volume leading developmentalists address the question of how children's thinking develops in context by drawing on the theories of Vygotsky, Gibson, and Piaget. Analyses of the ecology and the dynamics of behavior have become popular, emphasizing the particulars of people acting in specific environments and the many complex factors of human body and mind that contribute to action and thought. This volume brings together many of the current efforts to deal with development in this richly ecological, dynamic way. The research reported demonstrates that recent years have pr |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fischer, Kurt W
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| ISBN |
9781317783350 |
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1317783352 |
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