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The Jean Piaget Society
Provides a biography of Piaget and presentations from the Jean Piaget Society Annual Symposium from 1995 to the present.
( http://www.piaget.org/index.html )
Piaget's Stages
Covers Piaget's four stages - sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational.
( http://www.eagle2.american.edu/~gb3107a/piaget.htm )
Sensorimotor Development
Provides an overview of Piaget's six substages of sensorimotor development.
( http://www.sensorimotor.com/articles.htm )
Cognitive Milestones
Describes a number of cognitive changes in infancy.
( http://www.ctw.org/babyworkshop/library/article/0,3170,860,00.html )
Challenges to Piaget
Interviews with leading developmental psychology researchers such as Susan Gelman, Andrew Meltzoff, and Alison Gopnik discuss recent theory and research that challenge some of Piaget's ideas. >>Infant Cognition Symbolic Thinking http://www.ctw.org/parents/advice/article/0,4125,740,00.html Examines young children's symbolic thinking during the early childhood years.
( http://www.dadi.org/theoryx2.htm )
Piaget and Education
Information about Piaget's stages of cognitive development and implications of his ideas for educating children. Also explores instructional technology and Piaget's constructivist ideas.
( http://psychology.about.com/library/weekly/aa051501a.htm )
Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist
Explores many aspects of Vygotsky's theory including its ties to philosophical views, his unique contributions, historical contexts, and the importance of learning to use a culture's tools effectively.
( http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/comment/lois1.htm )
Vygotsky Links
Extensive links to a wide range of ideas related to Vygotsky's views.
( http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne )
Scaffolding
Read about the application of scaffolding to learning and the Internet, scaffolding and Vygotsky's theory, and constructivist exercises.
( http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/scaffolding.html )
Cognitive Apprenticeship
Evaluates the importance of using a cognitive apprenticeship approach in classroom instruction. Includes applications to industrial and technical education.
( http://borg.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/v33n3/duncan.html )







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