Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Piaget's first theory of equilibrium (1918) / Jacques Vonèche
  • chapter 2 Learning and adaptation in the theory of constructivism / Ernst von Glasersfeld
  • chapter 3 Jean Piaget: the unknown sociologist? / Richard F. Kitchener
  • chapter 4 Values, knowledge, and Piaget / Terrance Brown
  • chapter 5 An exploration of the long-term far-transfer effects following an extended intervention program in the high school science curriculum / Philip Adey
  • chapter 6 The acquisition of conceptual knowledge in science by primary school children
  • Christine Howe, Andrew Tolmie and / Group interaction and the understanding of motion down an incline
  • chapter 7 Thinking as argument / Deanna Kuhn
  • chapter 8 The microgenetic method
  • Robert S. Siegler and Kevin Crowley / A direct means for studying cognitive development
  • chapter 9 Piaget and measurement II
  • Trevor G. Bond / Empirical validation of the Piagetian model
  • chapter 10 Higher-order structure and relational reasoning
  • Usha Goswami and Ann L. Brown / Contrasting analogical and thematic relations
  • chapter 11 A life-span approach to object permanence / Eugene V. Subbotsky
  • chapter 12 Magic
  • Carl N. Johnson and Paul L. Harris / Special but not excluded
  • chapter 13 Conditional reasoning with false premises
  • Henry Markovits / Fantasy and information retrieval
  • chapter 14 The ontology of order / Brendan McGonigle
  • chapter 15 Children and arithmetic / Peter Bryant
  • chapter 16 Representation and reasoning in early numerical development
  • Catherine Sophian / Counting, conservation, and comparisons between sets
  • chapter 17 Beyond competence and performance
  • Michael Chapman and Michelle L. McBride / Children's class inclusion strategies, superordinate class cues, and verbal justifications
  • chapter 18 The development of metalogical understanding / David Moshman
  • chapter 19 Judgements and justifications
  • Leslie Smith / Criteria for the attribution of children's knowledge in Piagetian research
  • chapter 20 The cognitive basis of uncertainty / James P. Byrnes
  • chapter 21 Proof construction
  • Carol Foltz, Willis F. Overton and Robert B. Ricco / Adolescent development from inductive to deductive problem-solving strategies.