Neo-Piagetian Theories of Cognitive Development Book

Foreword Introduction Part I: General Principles of Cognitive Organisation and Change and Implications for Education 1. Cognitive development in educational contexts: implications of skill theory Thomas R. Bidell and Kurt W. Fischer 2. Modes of knowing, forms of knowing, and ways of schooling John B. Biggs 3. The role of central conceptual structures in the development of children's scientific and mathematical thought Robbie Case 4. Social organisation of cognitive development: internalization and externalization of constraint systems Jaan Valsiner 5. Structural systems in developing cognition, science and education Andreas Demetriou, Jan-Eric Gustafsson, Anastasia Efklides and Maria Platsidou Part II: Inducing Cognitive Change 6. Problems and issues in intervention studies Michael Shayer 7. Training, cognitive change and individual differences Anastasia Efklides, Andreas Demetriou and Jan-Eric Gustafsson 8. Improving operational abilities in children Benö Csapó 9. Training scientific reasoning in children and adolescents Luc Goossens 10. Value and limitations of analogs in teaching mathematics Graeme S. Halford and Gillian M. Boulton-Lewis 11. Developing thinking abilities in arithmetic class Lauren B. Resnick with Victoria Bull and Sharon Lesgold 12. Causal theories, reasoning strategies and conflict resolution by experts and novices in Newtonian mechanics J. Ignacio Pozo and Mario Carretero 13. Cognitive prerequisites of reading and spelling: a longitudinal approach Wolfgang Schneider and Jan Carol N&#228slund Concluding Chapter 14. Returning toschool: review and discussion John B. Biggs Index