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Introducing Piaget, a guide for practitioners and students in early years education, Ann Marie Halpenny and Jan Pettersen

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-168) and index

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Introducing Piaget

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Ann Marie Halpenny and Jan Pettersen

a guide for practitioners and students in early years education

Jean Piaget was one of the most significant contributors to our current understanding of how children think and learn, from birth through to adolescence. This book captures the key concepts and principles of Piaget's fascinating work on children's thinking, and explores how thinking evolves and develops from infancy through the early years and beyond. Areas covered in Introducing Piaget include: key milestones and achievements in children's thinking; understanding the physical world through senses and movement in infancy; supporting the emergence of symbolic thought and language in the early years; understanding object permanence; implications of egocentric thinking in early childhood learning and development. Throughout the book, the consequences of these developments for children's social, emotional and intellectual development are discussed

Constructivism: children as active creators of knowledge and learning -- The landscape of cognitive development in childhood -- The building blocks of cognitive development in childhood -- The sensorimotor world -- Object permanence: out of sight, out of mind? -- The preoperational world: symbolic function substage -- Egocentrism and the preschooler -- The preoperational world: intuitive thought substage -- The concrete operational world -- The formal operational world -- Drawing it all together