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Peer reviewedEdelstein, Wolfgang – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Notes that change in the moral and cognitive realms is a long-term historical process that includes progression and regression. Reconstructs the cognitive correlates of historical progress, using as examples the emergence of invariant numbers in Mesopotamia, the growth of logic and perspectivism in the early Middle Ages, and the rise of public…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Culture, Educational History
