In 1997, I argued that with the loss of Piaget's theory as an overarching guide, cognitive development had become disjointed and a new metatheory was needed to unify the field. I suggested ...developmental biology, particularly evolutionary theory, as a candidate. Here, I examine the increasing emphasis of biology in cognitive development research over the past 2 decades. I describe briefly the emergence of evolutionary developmental psychology and examine areas in which proximal and distal biological causation have been particularly influential. I argue that developmental biology will continue to increasingly influence research and theory in cognitive development and that evolutionary theory is well on its way to becoming a metatheory, not just for cognitive development, but for developmental psychology generally.
Cependant, nous qui enseignons, formons et cherchons dans le domaine carrefour de la didactique des langues-cultures, nous avons bien conscience que la complexité de notre discipline exige que nous ...fassions appel a ceux qui enseignent, forment et surtout cherchent non seulement dans d'autres sciences et disciplines voisines mais aussi dans les champs des autres sciences. Je ne détaillerai pas toutes les étapes de ce parcours qui nous fait réfléchir a la notion de temps en sciences humaines, a celles de psychologie génétique en relation avec les apprentissages, d' espace-temps et de rythmes d'acquisition, de complexité selon Bachelard et Edgar Morin, et de ses différentes variables dans la prise en compte des situations d'éducation. Ce n'est pas seulement notre confrontation avec les sciences de la nature que nous devons prendre en compte mais aussi et peut-etre d'abord nous interroger sur les interactions et les complémentarités nécessaires entre les sciences et les disciplines impliquées par nos propres recherches et actions : la linguistique certes, et pas seulement la linguistique des systemes mais aussi et surtout celle de la parole en action, dans toutes ses implications.
The IQ gains of the 20th century have faltered. Losses in Nordic nations after 1995 average at 6.85 IQ points when projected over thirty years. On Piagetian tests, Britain shows decimation among high ...scorers on three tests and overall losses on one. The US sustained its historic gain (0.3 points per year) through 2014. The Netherlands shows no change in preschoolers, mild losses at high school, and possible gains by adults. Australia and France offer weak evidence of losses at school and by adults respectively. German speakers show verbal gains and spatial losses among adults. South Korea, a latecomer to industrialization, is gaining at twice the historic US rate.
When a later cohort is compared to an earlier cohort, IQ trends vary dramatically by age. Piagetian trends indicate that a decimation of top scores may be accompanied by gains in cognitive ability below the median. They also reveal the existence of factors that have an atypical impact at high levels of cognitive competence. Scandinavian data from conventional tests confirm the decimation of top scorers but not factors of atypical impact. Piagetian tests may be more sensitive to detecting this phenomenon.
•Important national differences, particularly the contrast between Scandinavia and elsewhere.•Dutch trends show that IQ gains vary by age which is indicative of the strength of various causal factors.•Piagetian trends provide information conventional tests do not: that the largest losses may be at the top of the curve.
This open access book offers a critical analysis of the history of the International Bureau of Education (IBE) from its founding in 1925 to its integration into UNESCO in January 1969. Based on the ...conceptual and methodological tools of the transnational turn and on archives, fully exploited for the first time by the research team, this book enriches knowledge of the phenomena of globalization. It does so in a field, education, which is currently one of those most invested in globalization, but whose sociogenesis in the era of its first period of institutionalization remains to be explored more profoundly. The authors do this by analyzing how the actors of the IBE tried to realize their aspiration towards universal aims in education, the contradictions they were confronted with, the causes they invested in, their operating mode and the governments and international organizations with which they cooperated.
This paper focuses on two elements of the Passover Seder ritual and their connection to Piagetian education theory. After outlining Piaget's theory of genetic epistemology and its implications for ...education theory, it focuses on Sigel's distancing theory, which touts question asking as a tool for presenting information to students. This paper argues that the Jewish ritual of the Passover Seder was formulated with such pedagogical methods in mind, especially as it concerns the role of questioning. This paper also discusses storytelling's importance as an effective tool in pedagogical instruction, and how the Passover Seder also takes advantage of that modality to make the ritual more impactful for educational purposes.
Many vector-borne diseases circulate in the Republic of Cabo Verde. These include malaria during the colonization of the archipelago by the Portuguese explorers and several arboviruses such as yellow ...fever (now eradicated), dengue and zika.
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