Several interdependent factors involved ... and they are concepts to consider while lesson planning.

goals at the completion of the research you will

write a paper about the life & times of JP --

• How did he ever get started in the "kid-thinking business?"
• And what do albino sparrows and clams have to do with it?

• conservation
• operations / pre-operations
• cognition
• intelligence
• assimilation
• equilibration / equilibrium
• disequilibration / disequilibrium
• accommodation

  and

• list a variety of the characteristics of pre-operational children
• define and give an example of 'mixed concept'
• cite examples of inductive / deductive / transductive thinking
• relate specific pre-operational tasks to expectations of the school curriculum.
• explain the role of experiences ---
• physical;
• logical-mathematical and
• social --- in the learning process.
• explain how child development is an interdependent process.

readings

reading 1
some notes and quotes

reading 2
piaget's obit

reading 3
equilibrium = true learning

reading 4
concrete thinkers -- a list of their skills

reading 5
formal thinkers -- a list of their skills

reading 6
some test data -- spooky results

reading 7
the child -- a great summary of his ideas; get xerox from dr. leyden

reading 8
conversations with children--their conceptions of causality

reading 9
1964 duckworth: piaget rediscovered --- s&c --- issue #2

reading 10
listening to children - a way of analyzing the thoughts behind their words

reading 11
under construction