Microdevelopment (eBook, PDF)

Transition Processes in Development and Learning
Redaktion: Granott, Nira

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Produktbeschreibung

Microdevelopment is the process of change in abilities, knowledge and understanding during short time-spans. This book presents a new process-orientated view of development and learning based on recent innovations in psychology research. Instead of characterising abilities at different ages, researchers investigate processes of development and learning that evolve through time and explain what enables progress in them. Four themes are highlighted: variability, mechanisms that create transitions to higher levels of knowledge, interrelations between changes in the short-term scale of microdevelopment and the crucial effect of context. Learning and development are analysed in and out of school, in the individual's activities and through social interaction, in relation to simple and complex problems and in everyday behaviour and novel tasks. With contributions from the foremost researchers in the field Microdevelopment will be essential reading for all interested in cognitive and developmental science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511060144
• Artikelnr.: 38208384

Autorenporträt

Nira Granott is an assistant professor at the School of Human Development, University of Texas at Dallas, and director of the Microdevelopmental Lab at the UT Dallas. She has a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Media Laboratory, and Ed.M. from Harvard University, the Graduate School of Education. She had taught in teachers'' continuing education programs, at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and at UT Dallas. She had worked as an educational software designer, producer of multimedia projects in educational television, and consultant for software design projects. Her primary research interests are collaborative microdevelopment, the process of change in development and learning, pathways and mechanisms in the emergence of change, and the way people at different ages interact with each other to make change happen. Included in Who''s Who in the World, 2001. Member of American Psychological Society, Society for Research in Child Development, Jean Piaget Society, and American Educational Research Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Microdevelopment Nira Granott and Jim Parziale; Part I.
Variability: 1. Microgenetic srudies in self-explanation Robert S. Siegler;
2. Microdevelopment and dynamic systems: Applications to infant motor
development Esther Thelen and Daniela Corbetta; 3. Looking at the hands
through time: A microgenetic perspective on learning and instruction Susan
Goldin-Meadow and Martha Wagner Alibali; Part II. Transition Mechanisms: 4.
A multi-component system that constructs knowledge: Insights from
microgenetic study Deanna Kuhn; 5. Bridging to the unknown: a transition
mechanism in learning and development Nira Granott, Kurt W. Fischer and Jim
Parziale; 6. Observing the dynamics of construction: children building
bridges and new ideas Jim Parziale; Part III. Micro- and macrodevelopment:
7. Interacting time scales in personality (and cognitive) development:
intentions, emotions and emergent from Marc D. Lewis; 8. How
microdevelopment creates macrodevelopment: reiterated sequences, backward
transitions and the Zone of Current Development Nira Granott; 9. Macro- and
microdevelopment research: assumptions, research strategies, constraints
and utilities Kang Lee and Annette Karmiloff-Smith; Part IV. Context: 10.
Notebooks as windows on learning: the case of a science-into-ESL programme
Rochel Gelman, Laura Romo and Wendy S. Francis; 11. Darwin's construction
of the theory of evolution: microdevelopment of explanations of variation
and change in species Kurt W. Fischer and Zheng Yan; 12. Developmental
dynamics, intentional action and fuzzy sets Paul Van Geert; Indexes.