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Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society: The Study of Knowledge and Development, this volume of explorations seeks further understanding of the mechanisms of mental development. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny and history of mentation.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book is part of the Jean Piaget Symposia. It focuses on classic issues between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development and their neurological substrates. Specifically, it focuses on the experience-contingent, experience dependent

This volume brings the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, with chapters from leading researchers in both areas. For cognitive developmentalists and primatologists and comparative psychologists.

This volume, which brings together eminent social scientists studying the interaction between culture, thought, and development, will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in cultural and developmental psychology, education, sociology and anth

This volume includes contributions from scholars examining conceptual development in a variety of scientific domains. It will be of interest to all who study children's thinking, whether from psychological, educational, or philosophical perspectives.

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whethe

This volume considers previously separate bodies of research on social justice, social equality, and social development. Eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss the latest research to help us understand the relation between social inequalities and social development. In so doing, the book documents the powerful ways that social inequalities frame development and explores the conflicts that arise in the context of these inequalities. It illustrates how people around the world make judgments about these conditions and how they resist or change the practices they deem unjust. By bringing together these perspectives, the editors hope to demonstrate how understanding social development carries with it the possibility of change and social justice. The book considers processes of social development. It examines Piaget''s ideas about morality and relates them to children''s thinking about social rights. An interdisciplinary review of research from developmental, social, and health psychology, social policy, anthropology, and philosophy, follows this introduction. Each contributor examines the historical, developmental, and social processes that influence beliefs regarding social justice and equality and the consequences of living in conditions of injustice. The book considers: Inequalities in educational and health care opportunities. Unequal rights and harassment and their effects on minorities. The hardships and inequalities encountered by women. Intended for researchers and advanced students in developmental, social, cultural, and health psychology, policy, anthropology, and philosophy interested in a world that is socially just.

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, "Biology and Knowledge Revisited" focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.

This text's goal is to go beyond traditional accounts of human symbol skills to examine the development and consequences of symbolic communication. The editors explore the significance of communicationg symbolically as a means for understanding human symbol skills.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Throughout this volume, which is an extension of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, the editors and contributors explore assumptions about children¿s play and its status as a unique and universal activity in humans. As a whole,

Provides perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge. The book reviews the nature and type of interactions that promote development as well as the conceptual frameworks used to explain the relation between individuals and groups.

This work asks how should we represent the workings and contents of the mind? How does the child construct mental models during the course of development? What are the origins of these models? And what accounts for the novelties that are the products and producers of developmental change?

Explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, this title examines the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part of a modern cultural transformation, in the growth of a creative artist.

Considers research on social justice, social equality, and social development. This title helps us understand the relation between social inequalities and social development. It looks at inequalities in educational and health care opportunities; unequal rights and their effects on minorities; and, hardships and inequalities encountered by women.

Illustrates different ways in which the concept of embodiment can be used in developmental psychology and related disciplines. This book explores the role of the body in the development of meaning, consciousness, and psychological functioning. It demonstrates how the concept of embodiment can deepen our understanding of developmental psychology.

The papers collected in this volume are all derived from the 29th Annual Symposium of JPS.The intent of the volume is to examine the issue of reductionism on the theoretical level in several sciences, including biology,psychology,&sociology.

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.