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.
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