The Origin Of The Idea Of Chance In Children

Author : Jean Piaget
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317661990
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children written by Jean Piaget and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although originally published in France in 1951 this English translation was not published until 1975. The book supplements the authors’ previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts to assimilate those aspects of experience that cannot be assimilated deductively – for example, the randomly mixed; and the necessity of discovering how the mental processes work in the totality of spontaneous and experimental searchings that make up what is called the problem of ‘induction’. Induction is a sifting of our experiences to determine what depends on regularity, what on law, and what on chance. The authors examine the formation of the physical aspects of the notion of chance; they study groups of random subjects and of ‘special’ subjects; and they analyse the development of combining operations which contributes to determining the relationship between chance, probability, and the operating mechanisms of the mind.

Author : Jean Piaget
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393011135
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children written by Jean Piaget and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in France, 1951 by Presses Universitaires de France as La genese de l'idee de hasard chez l'enfnat.

Author : James Joseph Heckman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262019132
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giving Kids a Fair Chance written by James Joseph Heckman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current social and education policies directed toward children focus on improving cognition, yet success in life requires more than smarts. Heckman calls for a refocus of social policy toward early childhood interventions designed to enhance both cognitive abilities and such non-cognitive skills as confidence and perseverance. This new focus on preschool intervention would emphasize improving the early environments of disadvantaged children and increasing the quality of parenting while respecting the primacy of the family and America's cultural diversity. Heckman shows that acting early has much greater positive economic and social impact than later interventions -- which range from reduced pupil-teacher ratios to adult literacy programs to expenditures on police -- that draw the most attention in the public policy debate. At a time when state and local budgets for early interventions are being cut, Heckman issues an urgent call for action and offers some practical steps for how to design and pay for new programs.

Author : Crystal R. Sanders
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469627817
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Chance for Change written by Crystal R. Sanders and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement. Women who had previously worked as domestics and sharecroppers secured jobs through CDGM as teachers and support staff and earned higher wages. The availability of jobs independent of the local white power structure afforded these women the freedom to vote in elections and petition officials without fear of reprisal. But CDGM's success antagonized segregationists at both the local and state levels who eventually defunded it. Tracing the stories of the more than 2,500 women who staffed Mississippi's CDGM preschool centers, Sanders's book remembers women who went beyond teaching children their shapes and colors to challenge the state's closed political system and white supremacist ideology and offers a profound example for future community organizing in the South.

Author : Norman H. Anderson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317783174
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contributions To Information Integration Theory written by Norman H. Anderson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of information integration provides a unified, general approach to the three disciplines of cognitive, social, and developmental psychology. Each of these volumes illustrates how the concepts and methods of this experimentally-grounded theory may be productively applied to core problems in one of these three disciplines.

Author : Richard W. Copeland
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Children Learn Mathematics written by Richard W. Copeland and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Zweng
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468482238
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Mathematical Education written by M. Zweng and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry O. Pollak Chairman of the International Program Committee Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA The Fourth International Congress on Mathematics Education was held in Berkeley, California, USA, August 10-16, 1980. Previous Congresses were held in Lyons in 1969, Exeter in 1972, and Karlsruhe in 1976. Attendance at Berkeley was about 1800 full and 500 associate members from about 90 countries; at least half of these come from outside of North America. About 450 persons participated in the program either as speakers or as presiders; approximately 40 percent of these came from the U.S. or Canada. There were four plenary addresses; they were delivered by Hans Freudenthal on major problems of mathematics education, Hermina Sinclair on the relationship between the learning of language and of mathematics, Seymour Papert on the computer as carrier of mathematical culture, and Hua Loo-Keng on popularising and applying mathematical methods. Gearge Polya was the honorary president of the Congress; illness prevented his planned attendence but he sent a brief presentation entitled, "Mathematics Improves the Mind". There was a full program of speakers, panelists, debates, miniconferences, and meetings of working and study groups. In addition, 18 major projects from around the world were invited to make presentations, and various groups representing special areas of concern had the opportunity to meet and to plan their future activities.

Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher : Sunburst
ISBN 13 : 9780374411749
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Chance Child written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Sunburst. This book was released on 1990-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelled to search for his half brother Creep who some people insist is nonexistent, Christopher locates Parliamentary Papers containing Nathaniel Creep's personal narrative of working conditions during the Industrial Revolution 100 years earlier.

Author : John G. Nicholls
Publisher : JAI Press(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Achievement Motivation written by John G. Nicholls and published by JAI Press(NY). This book was released on 1984 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mine Özyurt Kılıç
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443812234
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winterson Narrating Time and Space written by Mine Özyurt Kılıç and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, scholars, students and aficionados of Jeanette Winterson will find ten analyses of time, space and narrative in her works. From her very first novel, Jeanette Winterson has made her characters move in time and in space, and she has always shown a sophisticated interest in narrative forms, and this is the first book to focus entirely on these central concerns. The writers of the essays provide different perspectives on the three subjects, from postmodernism to quantum physics, queer theory to genre studies and the uncanny to stylistics. In its section on time and narrative, the volume offers a fresh approach to Winterson's works, with a concentration on autobiographical elements, love, desire, the language of quantum physics, and the queer uncanny. The next section, space and narrative, pursues the motifs of journeys, utopic spaces, cyberspace and labyrinths, and includes a chapter on the shorter fiction. The last section, which comprises essays that cover all three elements of time, space and narrative equally, examines these themes as they affect Winterson's representation of voices and corporeality, and her use of romance narrative in the children's fiction. The volume covers Winterson's major fiction, with the Introduction connecting the images of huts, rivers and fire-gazing that are found extensively in her works to the themes of time and space, and bringing the discussion up to Winterson's latest novel, The Stone Gods. A mixture of established and new scholars presents in this book an exciting array of the latest ideas on this respected and popular writer.