Promoting cognitive growth over the life span /
This book introduces special programs designed to enhance thinking and problem solving at the preschool, elementary, secondary, college, and graduate levels, as well as proven instructional methods to aid the elderly in retaining or regaining essential mental skills. The volume also considers diffic...
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Hillsdale, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum,
1990
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The social role of promoting cognitive growth over the life span / Milton Schwebel, Charles A. Maher, Nancy S. Fagley
- Education for thinking: what can psychology contribute? / Deanna Kuhn
- A life-span perspective on thinking and problem-solving / Jacqui Smith and Paul B. Baltes
- Negotiating sense in the zone of proximal development
- James V. Wertsch, Norris Minick
- Thinking and feeling: the elephant's tail / Michael Lewis
- Mediating cognitive processes to the retarded performer: rationale, goals, and nature of intervention / Reuven Feuerstein, Mildred B. Hoffman
- Active work and creative thought in university classrooms / Howard E. Gruber, Lucien Richard
- Theory and curriculum development in cognitive education / H. Carl Haywood, Penelope Brooks
- Practical perspectives on changing schools to stimulate cognitive development / Willy De Coster, Armand De Meyer, Roger Parmentier
- On Cognitive Development / Jerome Kagan