GMUS 601 Teaching and Learning

This book investigates how children perceive and understand the world around them. Piaget explores children’s notions of reality, causality, and animism, providing insights into their cognitive and moral development.

This study looks at the second part of evolution of sensorimotor intelligence, as the description of behavior no longer suffices to account for these new products of intellectual activity; it is the subject’s own interpretation of things which we must now try to analyze.

The book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning.

In the course of their researches for Mental Imagery in the Child (1971), the authors came to appreciate that action may be more conducive to the formation and conservation of images than is mere perception. This raised the problem of memory and its relation to intelligence, which they examine in this title.

The book supplements the authors' previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts to assimilate those aspects of experience that cannot be assimilated deductively - for example, the randomly mixed; and the necessity of discovering how the mental processes work in the totality of spontaneous and experimental searchings that make up what is called the problem of 'induction'.

Explores Piaget's concepts on the origins of intelligence in children.

Contains a complete synthesis of his thoughts on the mechanisms of intellectual development.

Piaget here offers both a definitive introduction to the method and a brilliant critique of the principal structuralist positions. He explains and evaluates the work of the main people at work in the field – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Talcott Parsons, Noam Chomsky – and concludes that structuralism has a rich and fruitful future ahead of it.

A structural foundation for tomorrow's education.- The right to education in the modern world.