Knowledge Under Construction: The Importance of Play in Developing Children's Spatial and Geometric Thinking

Type

Book

Authors

Daniel Ness

Stephen J. Farenga

ISBN 10

0742547892

ISBN 13

9780742547896

Tags

Child Psychology, Reference, Behavioral Sciences, Educational Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Developmental Psychology, Psychotherapy

Description

Knowledge under Construction is the first to examine young children's spatial and scientific thinking through their architectural constructions with Legos_ and blocks. The authors' coding system allows teachers and parents to observe and record children's cognitive behaviors related to spatial thinking. In challenging Piaget's thesis, the authors illuminate our conceptions of children's emergent knowledge of space and scientific inquiry, and provide new insight into alternative ways to measure cognitive abilities in children based through block play. - from Amzon

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