Exploring Cognitive Development

The Child as Problem Solver
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-631-23457-9
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch

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

Provides balanced coverage of a broad range of contemporary theories.

Focuses on collaborative tasks which are carried out with other children or adults.

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.

Draws on a wide range of research, including the author's own research into dyadic problem solving.

Contents:

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical Overview

3. Strategy Use And Learning In Problem Solving

4. Social Problem Solving

5. What The Child Brings To The Task

6. Summary, Review And Implications

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Zielgruppe

upper level students and researchers of cognition, cognitive development, developmental psychology and educational psychology in departments of psychology and education

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garton, Alison F.

Über Autor(innen)

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).