Books in the Jean Piaget Symposia Series series

Considers research on social justice, social equality, and social development. This title helps us understand the relation between social inequalities and social development. It looks at inequalities in educational and health care opportunities; unequal rights and their effects on minorities; and, hardships and inequalities encountered by women.

Explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, this title examines the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part of a modern cultural transformation, in the growth of a creative artist.

This text's goal is to go beyond traditional accounts of human symbol skills to examine the development and consequences of symbolic communication. The editors explore the significance of communicationg symbolically as a means for understanding human symbol skills.

This work asks how should we represent the workings and contents of the mind? How does the child construct mental models during the course of development? What are the origins of these models? And what accounts for the novelties that are the products and producers of developmental change?

Provides perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge. The book reviews the nature and type of interactions that promote development as well as the conceptual frameworks used to explain the relation between individuals and groups.

Throughout this volume, which is an extension of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, the editors and contributors explore assumptions about children¿s play and its status as a unique and universal activity in humans. As a whole,

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The "grand theories" of child development - from Freud, Erikson, Piaget and others - provide interpretative frameworks for change and development, but theory, method and application remained disconnected in many ways. This book is designed to cross those boundaries and redress these concerns.