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Piaget Today edited by
Barbel Inhelder, Denys de Caprona, Angela Cornu-Wells
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Piaget today. 1. Piaget, Jean 2. Developmental psychology I. Inhelder, Barbel II. De Caprona, Denys III. Comu-Wells, Angela 155'.092'4 BF713 ISBN 0-86377-047-9
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Contents
List of Contributors List of Discussants
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction Barbel Inhelder and Denys de Caprona
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1. Structures and Functions Guy Cellerier 15 2. Current Trends in Cognitive Development Research: Towards a New Synthesis Harry Beilin 31 3. Piaget's Natural Logic Marie-Jeanne Borel 65 4. Operatory Logic Jean-Blaise Grize 77 5. Logical Reasoning, Development and Learning Barry Richards 81 6. The Value of Logic and the Logic of Values Seymour Papert 101 7. The Masculine Authority of the Cognitive JohnM. Broughton 111 8. Sociology of Science and Sociogenesis of Knowledge Rolando Garcia 125
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9. Theory Change in Childhood Susan Carey 141 10. Cognition in its Relationship to Total Development in the First Few Years of Life Sybille K. Escalona 165 11. Origins of Intentional Strategic Memory in the Child Cesare Cornoldi 183 12. Spatial Reasoning in Small-size and Large-size Environments: In Search of Early Prefigurations of Spatial Cognition in Small-size Environments Gerhard Steiner 203 13. Development as Construction: Nature and Psychological and Social Context of Genetic Constructions Hans Aebli 217 14. The Coordination of Values: Current Relevance of the Piagetian Concept of Philosophy Reto Luzius Fetz 233 15. Laws of Consciousness as Norms of Mental Development Eduard Marbach 247 Closing Debate
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List of Contributors
Aebli, Hans Abteilung padagogische Psychologie, Universitat Bern, Switzerland Beilin, Harry, Developmental Psychology, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, New York, U.S.A. Borel, Marie-Jeanne, Faculte des Lettres, Section de Philosophie, Universite de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Broughton, John M., Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. de Caprona, Denys, Fondation Archives Jean Piaget, Universite de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland Carey, Susan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Cellerier, Guy, Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Universite de Geneve, Geneve, Switzerland Comoldi, Cesare, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Universita degli studi di Padova, Padova, Italy Escalona, Sybille K., Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, U.S.A. Fetz, Reto Luzius, Universite de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland Garcia, Rolando, Centro de Investigaci6n y de Estudios A vanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico Grize, Jean-Blaise, Centre de Recherches Semiologiques, Universite de Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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