Computer Experience and Cognitive Development: A Child's Learning in a Computer Culture - Softcover

Lawler Robert W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470201940 ISBN 13: 9780470201947

Publisher: Ellis Horwood Limited, 1985

Synopsis

This presentation of a detailed case study on a child's learning in a computer-centred environment recasts the study of learning in a new mold. It is the most intricate known analysis of ways in which an individual mind can develop through specific interactions with the social and physical world; providing a thorough exploration of how computer experience blends with knowledge based on diverse other experiences. Ideas are taken from artificial intelligence to describe cognitive structures and their changes. The text, rich in examples and real data, offers the reader a complete sense of what to expect when children encounter computers, showing precisely how one child reacted to an intensive engagement with computers in everyday life. As well as the four distinct sections covering studies of the same child, further detail permits a more rounded view. The studies, in addressing themselves directly to the question of how order emerges from chaos in the mind, present a theoretically motivated but empirically-guided description of how concrete knowledge from everyday experience produces behaviour capable of adaptivity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ellis Horwood Limited
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0470201940
• ISBN 13: 9780470201947
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English