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Bewildering Developmentalism: Poetic Juxtapositions and Propositions to Ask Different Questions about and with Children
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Oona Fontanella-Nothom – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Given the hegemony of developmentalism in early childhood education and care, this article uses a poetic juxtapositional approach to bewilder Piaget's theory of cognitive development. Critical consideration of how the theory of cognitive development has contributed to the imagining of a universal, ahistorical child and childhood(s) are discussed…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Piagetian Theory, Learning Experience, Resistance (Psychology)
Developmental Accounts of Intentionality: Toward Integration.
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Zeedyk, M. Suzanne – Developmental Review, 1996
Evaluates dominant theoretical positions on the development of intentionality, including goal-directedness, the role of parental scaffolding, an innate capacity for intersubjectivity, and behavioral object-directedness. Argues that this theoretical diversity is undermining the construction of a coherent developmental account, and explores the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Intention, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
From Anticipation to Reflection: Biological, Cognitive and Social Underpinnings of Children's Understanding of Intentionality.
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Johnson, Carl N. – 1991
This paper discusses factors that relate to the development of children's theory of mind. Cognitive and biosocial views of the development of theory of mind are distinquished. The paper maintains that all cultures recognize the intentional personhood of children in the first two years, though they vary in their methods of dealing with this…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Epistemology, Intention
Piagetian and Vygotskian Approach to Language Acquisition.
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Tomasello, Michael – Human Development, 1996
Recent research has established closer links between language, cognition, and social life than Piaget or Vygotsky imagined. Connections have been established between object permanence development and acquisition of disappearance words and the quantity and quality of child-adult joint attentional social interactions and children's early word…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Individual Development
Five Scribbles: An Inquiry into Artistic Intention and Critical Empathy.
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Henley, David R. – Journal of Art and Design Education, 1994
Examines five different examples of scribble art with the purpose of entering the experience of the scribbler through empathetic understanding. The participants include a schizophrenic adult; a blind, deaf, and autistic 10-year old; a known artist; a precocious 3-year old; and an elephant. Paper discovers commonalties in their efforts. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art Expression
First Partnerships: The Co-Construction of Intentional Communication.
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Harding, Carol Gibb; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Reviews research on the development of intentional communication between adult and child. Suggests that the communicative partnership between caregiver and child is dynamic, functioning to assist in the developmental achievements of the child and also functioning as a mechanism for socializing the child and his or her partner into the appropriate…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Development, Child Language