Emerging Themes in Cognitive Development: Volume II: Competencies

by Robert Pasnak (Editor), Mark L. Howe (Editor)

Overview

Emerging Themes in Cognitive Development presents two volumes of the newest research and theory in cognitive development available at the outset of the 1990s. These ideas are firmly rooted in research from the 1980s and, in some sense, these volumes represent a culmination of that research and of even earlier work. Nevertheless, these volumes are offered as catalysts more than summaries, because each presents the freshest and most recently gathered data of many scientists whose insights have had an important impact on the field. The latest ideas of these researchers will, in some cases, immediately prove to be dominant themes of research and theory. In other cases, of course, it will take longer for the concepts presented to capture the imagination of students and colleagues who are still invested in meritori­ ous research on other themes. In either case, the syntheses and innova­ tions proposed are not likely to escape the careful study of the serious scholar, and it is to such scholars that these volumes are dedicated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461392255
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/14/2011
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I. New Definitions of Competence.- 1. Categories and Causality.- 2. The Cognitive Basis of Dyslexia.- 3. Project Spectrum: A Theory-Based Approach to Early Education.- II. Advances in Competence.- 4. “I Watch, Therefore I Can Do”: The Development of Meta-Imitation During the Preschool Years and the Advantage of Optimism About One’s Imitative Skills.- 5. Parental Influences on Children’s Cognition.- 6. Memory Strategies: Natural Development and Use Following Instruction.- 7. Applying Cognitive Developmental Principals in Classrooms.- 8. Organizing Principles of the High/Scope Curriculum.- III. Afterword.- 9. New Approaches to the Development of Cognitive Competence.- Author Index.