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A Piaget primer : how a child thinks

Title
A Piaget primer : how a child thinks / Dorothy G. Singer & Tracey A. Revenson.
Author
Singer, Dorothy G.
Publication
New York : Plume, [1996], ©1996.

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Revenson, Tracey A.
Description
xiv, 146 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
  • Jean Piaget is arguably the most important figure of our century in the field of child psychology. In more than six decades of studying and working with children, he brilliantly and insightfully charted the stages of a child's intellectual maturation from the first years to adulthood and in so doing pioneered a new mode of understanding the changing ways in which a child comes to grasp the world.
  • The purpose of A Piaget Primer is to make Piaget's vital work readily accessible to teachers, therapists, students, and of course, parents. Two noted American psychologists distill Piaget's complex findings into wonderfully clear formulations without sacrificing either subtlety or significance.
  • To accomplish this they employ not only lucid language but such fascinating illuminations of a child's world and vision as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh as well as such recent media manifestations as Barney and Sesame Street. This completely revised edition of this classic work is as enjoyable as it is invaluable - an essential guide to comprehending and communicating with children better than we ever have before.
Subject
  • Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980
  • Cognition in children
  • Child psychology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-139) and index.
Contents
1. Jean Piaget and His Theory -- 2. The Stages of a Child's Development -- 3. How Intelligence Develops -- 4. Playing and Imitating -- 5. How Language Develops -- 6. Discovering Space, Time, and Numbers -- 7. Learning About Right and Wrong -- 8. Beyond Piaget: Using His Theory for Teaching, Learning, and Parenting.
ISBN
0452275652
LCCN
96001932
OCLC
ocm34243690
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries