From Piaget to the neo-Piagetians -- The theory of L. Pascual-Leone -- Structuralist approaches to developmental stages -- Problem solving in children -- The cyclical nature of skill development -- Structures and processes in Case's theory of development -- Cognitive development as change in representations -- Cognitive development and emotional development -- Applications -- In conclusion.
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Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope, and assume that cognitive development is divided into stages with qualitative differences. Unlike Piaget, however, they define the increasing complexity of the stages in accordance with the child's information processing system, rather than in terms of logical properties. This volume illustrates these cha.