A Child's Eye View (Piaget for young parents and teachers)

Mary Sime

Published by Thames and Hudson, 1979

About this Item

Mary Sime's insightful primer on the development of children with 97 photos centered around the development theories of Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a biologist who delved into the study of the development of children's understanding, through observing them and talking and listening to them while they worked on exercises he set. His view of how children's minds work and develop has been enormously influential, particularly in educational theory. His particular insight was the role of maturation (simply growing up) in children's increasing capacity to understand their world: they cannot undertake certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so. His research has spawned a great deal more, much of which has undermined the detail of his own, but like many other original investigators, his importance comes from his overall vision. He proposed that children's thinking does not develop entirely smoothly: instead, there are certain points at which it "takes off" and moves into completely new areas and capabilities. He saw these transitions as taking place at about 18 months, 7 years and 11 or 12 years. This has been taken to mean that before these ages children are not capable (no matter how bright) of understanding things in certain ways, and has been used as the basis for scheduling the school curriculum. Seller Inventory # ABE-6533013714

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Child's Eye View (Piaget for young parents...

Publisher: Thames and Hudson

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition