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In spite of its obvious importance and popularity, the field of cognitive development remains highly fragmented, scientifically. Instead of theoretical convergence towards a generally accepted set of principles, there remains a vast diversity of models of what knowledge and reasoning are, and how they develop. Courses and books tend to deal with this perplexing situation by simply presenting students with either a specific, favoured line, or by offering selections from the theoretical salad. As a result, students have great difficulty in obtaining a cohesive picture of the area. They are frequently bewildered by the diversity of schools, frameworks and approaches, with seemingly little connection between them. More seriously, they are deprived of a critical grasp of the area, and thus forced into a habit of early selectivity, rote memory of specific models in isolation, and regurgitation at exams. This in turn deprives the area of cognitive development of important critical impetus for future improvement. Models of Cognitive Development is an attempt to overcome these problems. It does this by arguing that the vast diversity of theories or models can be organised into groups according to a much smaller set of underlying assumptions or preconceptions, which themselves can be historically interrelated. By understanding these, students may be helped to find their way more confidently around the area as a whole, to see the 'wood' as well as the theoretical forest, and thus find themselves in a position to react to individual models more positively and more critically. Such criticism may, in turn, assist theoretical progress and unity in the future. Models of Cognitive Development covers all the contemporary theoretical and research strands in the area, with numerous examples, in a clear and straightforward manner, and should be useful to all students, researchers, and comparative theoreticians in the area.
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.
First published in 1999. This volume is the third of a series devoted to the first years of the child's development, the two others being concerned with the beginnings of intelligence and the child's construction of reality (La naissance de intelligence chez Venfant and La construction du reel chez Venfant). Although this book contains frequent references to the two other volumes, which deal with the same three children and study the relationships between their mental activities, it nevertheless constitutes in itself an independent and complete study
Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.
*The bestseller (85,000 in print) that put executive skills on the map, updated and expanded: 40% new material includes a new emphasis on involving students in intervention design. *New chapters on Special Education and on working with students with ASD and with ADHD. *Accessible, affordable, authoritative, realistic, and practical: an indispensable guide to daily practice for school psychologists and educators working with children ages 6-17 (grades K-12). *New guest-authored chapters showcase innovative work by educators to implement whole-class and schoolwide initiatives. *The key professional work in the authors' suite of EF resources, including the Work-Smart Academic Planner for teens and the Smart but Scattered books for parents.
The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in
studying systems where there are multiple elements interacting with
each other and with the child. How should this system be described?
Still other problems relate to indirect effects; namely the
influence of a particular dyad's interaction on the child when the
child is not a member of the dyad. While all agree that the
mother-father relationship has important bearing on the child's
development, exactly how to study this--especially using
observational techniques--remains a problem. While progress in
studying the family has been slow, there is no question that an
increase in interest in the family systems, as opposed to the
mother-child relationship, is taking place. This has resulted in an
increase in research on families and their effects.
Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty years of the life of the Adolescent Department at the Clinic, this covers a full range of clinical work with some of the most difficult areas of adolescence, but it also gives a conceptual framework of normal adolescence and traces the difficulties that arise when this goes wrong. Facing It Out presents new work which has not previously been fully described. The book will be vital reading for clinicians whose work includes work with adolescents. The Adolescent Department of the Tavistock Clinic in its long history has been engaging with young people and their families when the strains prove too great. In this book, staff of the Adolescent Dept examine in accessible language different clinical aspects of adolescent disturbance, exploring in particular the impact on the family. The chapters look at a range of severity of disturbance from adjustment crises to anorexia nervosa and psychosis as well as aspects of adolescent development in small families and in the formation of a sense of identity. With the exception of infancy, adolescence is the most radical of all developmental periods.
Friendships are crucial to children's well-being and happiness and lay important foundations upon which later relationships in adolescence and adulthood are built. This overview of the nature and significance of children's peer relationships examines issues such as social-cognitive development; the context of children's relationships; relationship problems such as loneliness; shyness and social isolation; and methods of promoting positive relationships.
Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by
Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have
been in pursuit of a psychologically valid theory of grammar. To be
explanatorily adequate, a theory of grammar can not only describe
the general characteristics of a language but can also account for
the underlying psychological processes of acquiring and processing
that language. To be considered psychologically valid, a grammar
must be learnable by ordinary children (the problem of acquisition)
and must generate sentences that are parsable by ordinary people
(the problem of processing). Ultimately, the fields of language
acquisition and processing are concerned with the same goal: to
build a theory that accounts for grammar as it is acquired by
children; accessed in comprehension and production of speech; and
represented within the human mind. Unfortunately, these two fields
developed independently and have rarely been well-informed about
each other's concerns. Both have experienced past difficulties as a
result.
Like a treasure chest, this resource overflows with valuable resources - information, ideas and techniques to inspire and support those working with children who have experienced relational and developmental trauma. Drawing on a range of therapeutic models including systemic, psychodynamic, trauma, sensory, neurobiological, neurocognitive, attachment, cognitive behavioural, and creative ideas, Dr Karen Treisman explains how we understand trauma and its impact on children, teens and their families. She details how it can be seen in symptoms such as nightmares, sleeping difficulties, emotional dysregulation, rage, and outbursts. Theory and strategies are accompanied by a treasure trove of practical, creative, and ready-to-use resources including over 100 illustrated worksheets and handouts, top tips, recommended sample questions, and photographed examples.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research this century. He was prolific, authoring or editing over eighty books and numerous journal papers which have spawned a huge and fertile continuation of his research over the decades. A major component of any course on children's psychological development and a research tradition that is expanding, scholars need access to the original texts rather than relying on secondhand accounts." Jean Piaget: Selected Works" is a chance to acquire key original texts, most of which have been previously unavailable for several years.
Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research this century. He was prolific, authoring or editing over eighty books and numerous journal papers which have spawned a huge and fertile continuation of his research over the decades. A major component of any course on children's psychological development and a research tradition that is expanding, scholars need access to the original texts rather than relying on secondhand accounts. "Jean Piaget: Selected Works" is a chance to acquire key original texts, most of which have been previously unavailable for several years.
Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research of the 20th century. He was also prolific, authoring or editing over 80 books and numerous journals and papers which spawned a continuation of his work over the following decades. His work now compromises a major component of many courses on children's psychological development and in a research tradition which is expanding, scholars may need access to the original texts rather than secondhand accounts. This volume is the sixth of nine reproducing Piaget's original works - they are also available as a boxed set.
Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research this century. He was prolific, authoring or editing over eighty books and numerous journal papers which have spawned a huge and fertile continuation of his research over the decades. A major component of any course on children's psychological development and a research tradition that is expanding, scholars need access to the original texts rather than relying on secondhand accounts. Jean Piaget: Selected Works is a chance to acquire key original texts, most of which have been previously unavailable for several years.
This scholarly yet highly readable and practical text
systematically covers the importance, development, assessment, and
treatment of social skills of children and adolescents. Combining
scientific rigor with a highly approachable and readable style of
writing to create a practical and unique book, this volume provides
a comprehensive overview of the increasingly important topic of
child and adolescent social skills. A wide variety of tables,
figures, and practical step-by-step guides enhance the material
presented, making it particularly useful for practitioners while
offering an extensive array of recent research and models of
interest to researchers. The authors present a solid foundation of
scientific knowledge written in a manner accessible to
nonscientists and having ample practical implications and examples
for educational and clinical practice. The book is divided into two
parts--the first features a foundation for conceptualizing and
assessing child and adolescent social skills, whereas the second
focuses on the arena of intervention. An up-to-date and unique
addition to the literature, this volume will be of interest to
professionals who work with or study children across several
disciplines including school and clinical child psychology, special
education, counseling, and social work.
Offering a unique focus on the development of human communication,
this book integrates and synthesizes a more comprehensive array of
research than most investigations of communicative development. As
such, it incorporates materials dealing with the development of
nonverbal communication, language, and cognition, and examines how
they are integrated in the growing child's everyday interaction.
This information is distilled into a set of key principles and
practices--culled from a variety of fields including developmental
and social psychology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and
communication--for parents or adults interested in child
development.
Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action
in advance. Although people do not plan all the time and planning
does not occur in every situation, planning skill is central to all
human behavior. There are developmental differences in planning
skill and in the motivation to plan. Even among adults, variations
in the engagement in the planning process are affected by
individual attitudes, beliefs, and goals. Planning also has a
different meaning at various junctures in one's life. Yet despite
the amount of research on planning, many of the studies have
focused only on the cognitive processes that enable mature
individuals to plan.
This distinctive cross-linguistic examination of spelling examines the cognitive processes that underlie spelling and the process of learning how to spell. The chapters report and summarize recent research in English, German, Hebrew, and French. Framing the specific research on spelling are chapters that place spelling in braod theoretical perspectives provided by cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistic, and writing system-linguistic frameworks. Of special interest is the focus on two major interrelated issues: how spelling is acquired and the relationship between reading and spelling. An important dimension of the book is the interweaving of these basic questions about the nature of spelling with practical questions about how children learn to spell in classrooms. A motivating factor in this work was to demonstrate that spelling research has become a central challenging topic in the study of cognitive processes, rather than an isolated skill learned in school. It thus brings together schooling and learning issues with modern cognitive research in a unique way. testing, children writing strings of letters as a teacher pronounces words ever so clearly. In parts of the United States it can also bring an image of specialized wizardry and school room competition, the "spelling bee." And for countless adults who confess with self-deprecation to being "terrible spellers," it is a reminder of a mysterious but minor affliction that the fates have visited on them. Beneath these popular images, spelling is a human literacy ability that reflects language and nonlanguage cognitive processes. This collection of papers presents a sample of contemporary research across different languages that addresses this ability. To understand spelling as an interesting scientific problem, there are several important perspectives. First, spelling is the use of conventionalized writing systems that encode languages. A second asks how children learn to spell. Finally, from a literacy point of view, another asks the extent to which spelling and reading are related. In collecting some of the interesting research on spelling, the editors have adopted each of these perspectives. Many of the papers themselves reflect more than one perspective, and the reader will find important observations about orthographies, the relationship between spelling and reading, and issues of learning and teaching throughout the collection.
Memory development has been a central topic in developmental
psychology for the past 30 years. This volume summarizes the
research achievements during that era and relates those
achievements to work on memory development conducted throughout the
20th century. An abridgement of Schneider and Pressley's previous
work ("Memory Development Between Two and Twenty, Second Edition,"
1997, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.), this book has been
reorganized to better discuss the most important themes in memory
development for the novice student. By highlighting the issues
driving contemporary memory development research, it provides the
knowledge that students require to effectively understand the
newest studies on memory development. This textbook is not a
history; rather, it offers a framework for understanding the many
memory development studies now appearing in the literature.
Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research this century. He was prolific, authoring or editing over eighty books and numerous journal papers which have spawned a huge and fertile continuation of his research over the decades. A major component of any course on children's psychological development and a research tradition that is expanding, scholars need access to the original texts rather than relying on secondhand accounts. "Jean Piaget: Selected Works" is a chance to acquire key original texts, most of which have been previously unavailable for several years.
This monograph brings together important research that the author
and his colleagues at the University of New England have been
conducting into the early stages of reading development, and makes
a valuable contribution to the debate about literacy education. It
should appeal to a broad audience since it is written in an
entertaining and accessible style, with chapter summaries, and
where appropriate short tutorials in relevant topics, in particular
Learnability Theory (Chapter 1), levels of language structure
(Chapter 2) and writing systems (Chapter 2). |
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