Child's Conception of the World: Selected Works vol 1,9780415168878

Child's Conception of the World: Selected Works vol 1

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415168878
ISBN10: 0415168872
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-03-26
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Jean Piaget was one of the most salient and inspirational figures in psychological and educational research this century. He was prolific, authoring or editing over eighty books and numerous journal papers which have spawned a huge and fertile continuation of his research over the decades. A major component of any course on children's psychological development and a research tradition that is expanding, scholars need access to the original texts rather than relying on secondhand accounts. Jean Piaget: Selected Works is a chance to acquire key original texts, most of which have been previously unavailable for several years.

Table of Contents

Introduction.---Problems and Methods 1(1)
Method of tests, pure observation and the clinical method
2(8)
The five types of reaction revealed by clinical examination
10(8)
Rules and criteria for the diagnosis of the preceding types of reaction
18(5)
Rules for the interpretation of the results
23(10)
PART I.---REALISM 33(136)
The Notion of Thought
37(24)
The first stage: thinking is with the mouth
39(8)
Looking and seeing
47(2)
The second and third stages: thinking is with the head
49(6)
Words and things
55(6)
Nominal Realism
61(27)
The origin of names
63(8)
The place of names
71(9)
The intrinsic value of names
80(5)
Conclusions
85(3)
Dreams
88(35)
The first stage: the dream comes from outside and remains external
91(15)
The second stage: the dream arises in us ourselves, but is external to us
106(11)
The third stage: the dream is internal and of internal origin
117(2)
Conclusions
119(4)
Realism and the Origin of the Idea of Participation
123(46)
Realism and the consciousness of self
124(7)
Participation and magical practices
131(19)
The origins of participation and magic as mani-fested in the child
150(12)
Corroborative proof: spontaneous magical ideas in the adult
162(4)
Conclusion: logical ontological egocentricity
166(3)
PART II.---ANIMISM 169(84)
Consciousness Attributed to Things
171(23)
The first stage: all things are conscious
174(5)
The second stage: things that can move are conscious
179(3)
The third stage: things that can move of their own accord are conscious
182(3)
The fourth stage: consciousness is restricted to animals
185(2)
Conclusions
187(7)
The Concept of ``Life''
194(13)
The first stage: life is assimilated to activity in general
196(3)
The second stage: life is assimilated to movement
199(2)
The third and fourth stages: life is assimilated to spontaneous movement, then later is restricted to animals and plants
201(3)
Conclusion: the notion of ``life''
204(3)
The Origins of Child Animism, Moral Necessity and Physical Determinism
207(46)
The child's spontaneous animism
207(6)
The sun and moon follow us
213(9)
Physical determinism and moral necessity
222(6)
Conclusions. The significance of the questions on child animism, and the nature of ``diffuse animism''
228(6)
Conclusions (continued): the origins of child animism
234(19)
PART III.---ARTIFICIALISM 253(136)
The Origin of the Sun and Moon
256(29)
A primitive example of the first stage
258(5)
The first stage: the sun and moon are made artificially
263(9)
The second and the third stages: the origin of the sun and moon is first partly, then completely, natural
272(8)
The quarters of the moon
280(5)
Meteorology and the Origin of Water
285(48)
The sky
287(4)
The cause and the nature of night
291(7)
The origin of the clouds
298(9)
Thunder and lightning
307(4)
The formation of rain
311(9)
The explanations of snow, ice and cold
320(6)
Rivers, lakes and sea, the primitive origin of water
326(7)
The Origin of Trees, Mountains and of the Earth
333(17)
The origin of wood and of plants
334(3)
The origin of iron, glass, cloth, and of paper
337(2)
The origin of stones and of earth
339(8)
Origin of the mountains
347(3)
The Meaning and Origins of Child Artificalism
350(39)
The meaning of child artificialism
350(10)
The relations of artificialism with the problem of the birth of babies
360(9)
The stages of spontaneous artificialism and their relation with the development of animism
369(7)
The origins of artificialism
376(8)
The origins of identification and the causes of the decline of artificialism and animism
384(5)
Appendix.---Note on the Relations between belief in Efficacy and Magic, in connection with §§ 2 and 3 of Chapter IV 389(6)
Index of Names 395(1)
General Index 396

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