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RE: piaget?

From: Bill Barowy (wbarowy@lesley.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 04:12:32 PST


Thanks Diane and Ana, I'll check the references out. I'm pretty sure I can get database access to search the journal, and then order any articles.
Ana, I have your Galperin hum. dev. paper as the next thing to pick up after some critical tasks are first completed - I'd like to respond to Pedro's request soon.

bb

>yes, Margaret Donaldson's book is called "children's minds". there is
>another book that also presents a critical perspective on conservation tasks
>and, moreover, emprically refutes the phenomenon as age- and stage-related.
>It is the book by Ljudmila Obukhova "Theory of Jean Piaget: Pros and
>Contras". The book is in Russian but perhaps some of this work has been
>published in 'Soviet Psychology'? Mike would probably know... This work is
>also briefly described in recent Human Development paper by I.Arievitch and
>myself.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Diane Hodges [mailto:dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu]
>Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:30 AM
>To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Cc: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: piaget?
>
>
>xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>>Hey Folks,
>>
>>Does anyone know a critical perspective of that Piagetian conservation
>>task, i.e. the age of the child that infers that the ball entering the
>>tunnel is the same as the one that left it? Was it piaget or a follower?
>>
>>Thansk in advance,
>>bb
>>
>
>margaret donaldson, as i recall, refuted these tasks bit i can't recall
>the name of the text... "Children's Minds" i think.
>diane
>
> **********************************************************************
> :point where everything listens.
>and i slow down, learning how to
>enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
>
>(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
>***********************************************************************
>
>diane celia hodges
>
> university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
>instruction
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> university of colorado, denver, school of education
>
>Diane_Hodges@ceo.cudenver.edu

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