Research Catalog

Title

Development in context : acting and thinking in specific environments / edited by Robert H. Wozniak, Kurt W. Fischer.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wozniak, Robert H.
• Fischer, Kurt W.

Description

xvi, 291 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.

Summary

In this volume leading developmentalists address the question of how children's thinking develops in context by drawing on the theories of Vygotsky, Gibson, and Piaget. Analyses of the ecology and the dynamics of behavior have become popular, emphasizing the particulars of people acting in specific environments and the many complex factors of human body and mind that contribute to action and thought. This volume brings together many of the current efforts to deal with development in this richly ecological, dynamic way. The research reported demonstrates that recent years have produced major shifts in approach. Activities are studied as they naturally occur in everyday contexts. Children's active construction of the world around them is treated as fundamentally social in nature, occurring in families, with peers, and in cultures. Behavior is studied not as something disembodied but within a rich matrix of body, emotion, belief, value, and physical world. Behavior is analyzed as changing dynamically, not only over seconds and minutes, but over hours, days, and years.

Series Statement

The Jean Piaget Symposium series

Uniform Title

Jean Piaget Symposium series.

Subject

• Cognition in children > Social aspects > Congresses
• Socialization > Congresses
• Environmental psychology > Congresses
• Cognition
• Children
• Infants
• Social ecology
• Socialization
• Cognition
• Child
• Infant
• Social Environment
• Socialization
• cognition
• children (people by age group)
• infants
• human ecology
• Social ecology
• Infants
• Children
• Cognition in children > Social aspects
• Environmental psychology
• Kognitive Entwicklung
• Kulturelles System
• Milieu
• Soziales System
• Umwelt
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Ontwikkelingspsychologie
• Cognition chez l'enfant > Aspect social
• Socialisation
• Psychologie de l'environnement
• Milieu
• Kognitive Entwicklung
• Aufsatzsammlung

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Chiefly papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The ecology of cognitive development : research models and fugitive findings / Urie Bronfenbrenner -- The intention to use a specific affordance : a conceptual framework for psychology / Edward S. Reed -- Co-constructive metatheory for psychology : implications for an analysis of families as specific social contexts for development / Robert H. Wozniak -- The dynamics of competence : how context contributes directly to skill / Kurt W. Fischer [and others] -- Children's guided participation and participatory appropriation in sociocultural activity / Barbara Rogoff -- Mediating the environment : communicating, appropriating, and developing graphic representations of place / Roger M. Downs and Lynn S. Liben -- Patterns of interaction in the co-construction of knowledge : separate minds, joint effort, and weird creatures / Nira Granott.
• Socialization of cognition : the distancing model / Irving E. Sigel, Elizabeth T. Stinson, and Myung-In Kim -- Cultural organisms in the development of great potential : referees, termites, and the Aspen Music Festival / David Henry Feldman -- Where is the social environment? : a commentary on Reed / John A. Meacham -- Rumble or revolution : a commentary / William Kessen.

ISBN

• 0805807691
• 9780805807691

LCCN

92025908

OCLC

• ocm26255142
• 26255142
• SCSB-1986214

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library