The child's conception of movement and speed - Jean Piaget

KORTE INHOUD

The idea of movement implies the idea of order, since a change of position suggests a system of positions. The analysis of the development of the concepts of movement and speed begins, therefore, with an investigation into the evolution of the child's ideas of order.
Through observation and experimentation, Dr Piaget shows young children's thinking is dominated by the consideration of the point of arrival rather than lenghts of time or journey. Understanding this leads to a greater understanding of the development of reasoning in the child.
The gradual passage from intuitive thinking, still tied to the information of the senses, towards operational thinking, which forms the basis of reasoning itself, may be studied in the light of the particulary simple examples which are found in the areas of movement and speed.
Through a series of brilliantly simple expeiments, Piaget describes how the child forms his notions of movement and speed - concepts which relate especially to the child's comprehension of mathematics a...
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1971Uitgever: Ballantine Books340 paginasTaal: Engels