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Kamii, Constance; DeVries, Rheta – 1993
Guided by Piaget's constructivist theory on how children learn, this book explores an innovative approach to teaching physical knowledge in preschool. Part 1 differentiates between "science education" and "physical-knowledge" activities, noting that physical-knowledge activities involve primarily movements of objects and changes in objects. This…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Gravity (Physics), Learning Activities
Peer reviewedDeVries, Rheta; Zan, Betty – Young Children, 1995
Uses transcripts to present two very different approaches to helping children remember rules, reflecting very different sociomoral atmospheres that will influence children's development positively or negatively. Explores grouptime, decision making, and conflict resolution as they occur in constructivist classrooms characterized by mutual respect…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Decision Making
DeVries, Rheta; Zan, Betty S. – 1994
Drawing on and extending the work of Jean Piaget into the realm of sociomoral development, this book argues that constructivist education must involve more than the special activities with which it is commonly associated. Planning must also include provision for children's social and moral development, since children construct their moral…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Conflict Resolution, Constructivism (Learning), Decision Making
Peer reviewedDeVries, Rheta – Educational Researcher, 1997
Argues that Piaget did not consider social factors to be important in his developmental theory and considers some of the practical educational implications of Piaget's social theory. Piaget's notion of the role of social factors is reviewed, and the educational implications of the cooperative context favoring operational development with reference…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Cultural Influences
DeVries, Rheta; Zan, Betty; Hildebrandt, Carolyn; Edmiaston, Rebecca; Sales, Christina – 2002
This book provides a constructivist interpretation of developmentally appropriate preschool and kindergarten curriculum, incorporating descriptions of how activities are transformed over time and how children's reasoning is transformed, and placing the interpretation in the context of the play-oriented approach advocated by the National…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Constructivism (Learning), Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
Direct linkDeVries, Rheta – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
This paper has two purposes: (1) to explain briefly in terms of Piaget's theory why relationships are fundamental for constructivist teachers; and (2) to show how constructivist teachers can think about relationships in classroom activities. In a nutshell, the message is that the process by which children are constructing their intelligence,…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Class Activities, Piagetian Theory, Formal Operations
