Critical Readings on Piaget

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Foreword. Appendix. Chronological table of reprinted articles Leslie Smith 1. Piaget's first theory of equilibrium (1918) Jacques Voneche, 2. Learning and adaptation in the theory of constructivism Ernst von Glaserfeld, 3. Jean Piaget: The unknown sociologist? Richard F. Kitchener, 4. Values, knowledge and Piaget Terrance Brown, 5. An exploration of the long-term far-transfer effects following an extended intervention program in the high school science curriculum Philip Adey and Michael Shayer, 6. The acquisition of conceptual knowledge in science by primary school children: Group interaction and the understanding of motion down an incline Christine Howe, Andrew Tolmie and Catherine Rodgers, 7. Thinking as an argument Deanna Kuhn, 8. The microgenetic method: A direct means for studying cognitive differences Robert S. Siegler and Kevin Crowley, 9. Piaget and measurement, II Trevor Bond, 10. High order structure and relational reasoning: Contrasting analogical and thematic relations Usha Goswami and Ann L Brown, 11. A life span approach to object permanence Eugene V. Subbotsky, 12. Magic: Special but not excluded Carl N. Johnson and Paul L. Harris, 13. Conditional reasoning with false premises: Fantasy and information retrieval Henry Markovits, 14. The ontology of order Brendan McGonigle and Margaret Chalmers, 15. Children and arithmetic Peter Bryant, 16. Representation and reasoning in early numerical development: Counting, conservation and comparisons between sets Catherine Sophian, 17. Beyond competence and performance: Children's class inclusion strategies, superordinate class cues and verbal justification, 18. The development of metalogical understanding David Moshman, 19. Judgements and justifications: Criteria for the attribution of children's knowledge in Piagetian research Leslie Smith, 20. The cognitive basis of uncertainty James P. Byrnes and Harry Bellin, 21. Proof construction: Adolescent development from inductive to deductive problem solving strategies Carol Foltz, Willis F. Overton and Robert B. Ricco, Conclusion. Piaget's epistemology: Psychological and educational assessment Leslie Smith