Children Solving Problems (The Developing Child) - Couverture souple

Thornton, Stephanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674116240 ISBN 13 : 9780674116245

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Problem-solving skills evolve through experience and dynamic interaction with a problem. But equally important-as the Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky proposed-is social interaction. Successful problem-solving is a social process. Sharing problem-solving tasks-with skilled adults and with other children-is vital to a child's growth in expertise and confidence. In problem-solving, confidence can be more important than skill. In a real sense, problem-solving lies at the heart of what we mean by intelligence. The ability to identify a goal, to work out how to achieve it, and to carry out that plan is the essence of every intelligent activity. Could it be, Thornton suggests, that problem-solving processes provide the fundamental machinery for cognitive development? In Children Solving Problems she synthesizes the dramatic insights and findings of post-Piagetian research and sets the agenda for the next stage in understanding the varied phenomena of children's problem-solving.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephanie Thornton is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sussex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674116240
• ISBN 13: 9780674116245
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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