The Child's Conception of the World, Volume 1

Jean Piaget

Psychology Press, 1997 - Medical - 397 pages

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION PROBLEMS AND METHODS: 1
• REALISM: 33
• NOMINAL REALISM: 61
• DREAMS 888: 88
• REALISM AND THE ORIGIN OF: 123
• PART IIANIMISM: 169
• THE CONCEPT OF LIFE: 194
• THE ORIGINS OF CHILD ANIMISM: 207
• PART IIIARTIFICIALISM: 253
• METEOROLOGY AND THE ORIGIN: 285
• The sky p 287 2 The cause and the nature: 298
• Thunder and lightning p 307 5 The forma: 326
• THE ORIGIN OF TREES MOUNTAINS: 333
• The origin of stones and of earth p 339 4 Origin: 347
• APPENDIX NOTE ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN: 389
• INDEX OF NAMES: 395

About the author

Jean Piaget, 1896-1980 Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, whose original training was in the natural sciences, spent much of his career studying the psychological development of children, largely at the Institut J.J. Rousseau at the University of Geneva, but also at home, with his own children as subjects. The impact of this research on child psychology has been enormous, and Piaget is the starting point for those seeking to learn how children view numbers, how they think of cause-and-effect relationships, or how they make moral judgments. Piaget found that cognitive development from infancy to adolescence invariably proceeds in four major stages from infancy to adolescence: sensory-motor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Each of these stages is marked by the development of cognitive structures, making possible the solution of problems that were impossible earlier and laying the foundation for the cognitive advances of the next stage. He showed that rational adult thinking is the culmination of an extensive process that begins with elementary sensory experiences and unfolds gradually until the individual is capable of dealing with imagined concepts, that is, abstract thought. By learning how children comprehend the world and how their intellectual processes mature, Piaget contributed much to the theory of knowledge as an active process in which the mind transforms reality. Put simply, Piaget described children from a perspective that no one had seen before.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Child's Conception of the World, Volume 1; International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method; Volume 1 of Jean Piaget : selected works; Jean Piaget; Volume 1 of Piaget, Jean: Selected works; Volume 1 of Selected works, Jean Piaget; Volume 1 of Selections, Jean Piaget; The Child's Conception of the World, Andrew Tomlinson, ISBN 0415168864, 9780415168861; Volume 1 of Works, Jean Piaget
• Author: Jean Piaget
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0415168872, 9780415168878
• Length: 397 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Health Care Delivery; Psychology / Developmental / Child; Psychology / Movements / General; Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent; Reference / General