{"product_id":"piagets-theory-1","title":"Piaget's Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume marks the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the \u003cem\u003eJean Piaget Society.\u003c\/em\u003e Some of the American contributors were among the first to introduce Piaget to developmental and educational psychology in the United States, while some of the international contributors worked with Piaget to develop his program of genetic epistemology and continue to make significant contributions to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin this volume the possibility of Piaget's paradigm is reviewed not only as the stuff of normal science, yielding fascinating empirical questions that linger within it, but also, and more importantly, as the stuff of revolutionary science, with continuing potential to comprehensively structure our thinking about developmental theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe constructive contribution Piaget's theory has for developmental theory emerges as four central themes in the volume:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eunderstanding the intentional or semantic aspect of mental life without abandoning the Piagetian assumption that is rational and committed to truth testing;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexamining mental life and its development as a dialectical relation of function and structure--a relation Piaget introduced in his study of the developmental relation between procedural and operational knowledge;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eexploring new and interdisciplinary perspectives on equilibration as the driving force of constructive adaptive processes;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eunderstanding social and historical forces in individual and cultural development--not necessarily as forces antithetical to Piaget's perspective but as forces that take on new meaning within his framework which avoids erroneous dichotomies such as the distinction between subjective and objective knowledge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258004885848,"sku":"9780805810509","price":132.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780805810509.jpg?v=1768571146","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/piagets-theory-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}