EXPLORING COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT - THE CHILD AS PROBLEM SOLVER

Garton, Alison

ISBN 10: 0631234586 / ISBN 13: 9780631234586

Published by Basil Blackwell, 2004

About this Item

0631234586. 2004, light wear inking on a few pages,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EXPLORING COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT - THE CHILD AS PROBLEM SOLVER
• Publisher: Basil Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631234586
• ISBN 13: 9780631234586
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Acceptable
• Seller catalogs:
  • PSYCHOLOGY

About this title

Synopsis

This book uses the paradigm of the child as a problem solver to examine various theories of cognitive development.

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• Provides balanced coverage of a broad range of contemporary theories.
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• Focuses on collaborative tasks which are carried out with other children or adults.
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• Asks whether social interaction is the key to improvement in problem solving skills, or whether it is the skills and abilities that the child brings to the task that are paramount.
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• Draws on a wide range of research, including the author’s own research into dyadic problem solving.

About the Author

Alison F. Garton is Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. She is the author of Learning to be Literate (Blackwell Publishing, Second Edition, 1998) and Social Interaction and the Development of Language and Cognition (1992), and the editor of Systems of Representation in Children (1993).