Cognitive Development Today

Introduction/Summary/Questions for Dscussions/The Piagetian Legacy/Background/The Stages of Development/The Theory of Learning/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/The Role of Language/The Relationship between Language and Thought/The Acquisition of the Home Language/Reading/Other Aspects of Language/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Vygotsky and the Vygotskians/Vygotsky Himself/Present-Day Vygotskians/Summary/Question for Discussion/Further Reading/The Behaviorist Reaction/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/An Interventionist/Bruner: Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Criticisms of Specific Aspects of Piaget's Work/Bryant Donaldson and Others: Of the Sensorimotor Period by Bower and Butterworth/Of Concrete Operations by Bryant’s School/Of Concrete Operation by Donaldson and her School/Of the Theory of Knowledge by Bryant and his School/The Lack of Individual Differences/The Social Critique of Schaffer and Hamlyn/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/The Constructivist Movement/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Other Important Contemporary Schools/Alternatives to Piaget: The Information-Processing (IP) School /The Domain-Specific Viewpoint/The Structuralists/The Metacognitive Influence/The Nativists/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Loyal to the Founding Father/Fundamentalist Post- and Neo-Piagetians/The Fundamentalist Piagetians/The Neo-Piagetians/The Post-Piagetians/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Where Are We Now in Cognitive Development? Summary/Questions for Discussion/General Implications of Theories of Cognitive Development for Teachers/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Feuerstein/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/The Effect on Education of these Viewpoints/The National Curriculum/National Attainment Tests/Mixed-Stage/Mixed-Ability Teaching/The Secondary Teacher/The Junior Teacher/The Nursery and Infant Teacher/The Special-Needs Teacher/The Primary Science Teacher/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Teaching Mathematics/Pre-School Studies/American Studies of Primary Children/British Studies of Primary-School Children/Sutherland’s Studies of Primary Children with Difficulties in Maths/The Role of the Learning-Support Teacher/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/The Secondary Teacher/English/Science/Geography/History/Religious Studies/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading/Moral Development/Piaget’s Original Ideas/Kohlberg’s Development of Piaget's Ideas/Values Education/Conclusions/Summary/Questions for Discussion/Further Reading