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Albert Bandura

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Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191–215.
Bandura, A. (1982). Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. American Psychologist, 37(2), 122–147.
Bandura, A. (1991, December 1). Social cognitive theory of self-regulation. Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, v50(n2), 248.
Bandura, A. (1993). Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning. Educational Psychologist, 28(2), 117.
Bandura, A. (2001). Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 52, 1–26.
Bandura, A. (2001). Social cognitive theory of mass communication. Media Psychology, 3(3), 265–299.
Bandura, A., & Schunk, D. H. (1981). Cultivating competence, self-efficacy, and intrinsic interest through proximal self-motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 41(3), 586–598.
Bandura A. Behavior theory and the models of man. American Psychologist. 1974;29(12):859-869. doi:10.1037/h0037514
Wood, R., & Bandura, A. (1989). Social cognitive theory of organizational management. Academy of Management Review, v14(n3), 361.

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Albert Bandura in A History of Psychology in Autobiography, Vol IX by Lindzey, Gardner, (Ed); Runyan, William M., (Ed)
This chapter is an autobiography by Albert Bandura. The turn from social learning theory to social cognitive approaches is discussed.
Albert Bandura in Biographical Dictionary of Psychology by Noel Sheehy (Editor); Antony J. Chapman (Editor); Wendy Conroy (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415285612

Publication Date: 2002

Dictionary entry includes a list of principal publications.
Albert Bandura in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9781483346496

Encyclopedia entry provides an overview of Bandura and his social cognitive theory.
Albert Bandura in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology by Claudio Barbaranelli
ISBN: 9781452256719

Publication Date: 2016

This entry reviews Bandura’s work, including studies of social learning and social modeling, behavior modification, and social cognitive theory.
Social-Cognitive Theory by Albert Bandura
ISBN: 1557986568

Encyclopedia entry includes the following topics: symbolizing capability; vicarious capability; forethought capability; self-regulatory capability; self-reflective capability; the nature of human nature. (
Social cognitive theory in APA Educational Psychology Handbook by Karen R. Harris; Steve Graham; Timothy C. Urdan; American Psychological Association Staff (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9781433809972

Publication Date: 2012

Although there are different social cognitive perspectives, this chapter focuses on Bandura's (1977b , 1986 , 1997, 2001) social cognitive theory of psychological functioning. Bandura's theory underscores the key roles of vicarious, symbolic, and self-regulatory processes in the learning and performance of actions.
Social Learning According to Albert Bandura by Edelgard Wulfert
Publication Date: 2021

Social learning theory, later amplified as social cognitive theory by its founder, social psychologist Albert Bandura, provides a unified theoretical framework for analyzing the psychological processes that govern human behavior. Its goal is to explain how behavior develops, how it is maintained, and through what processes it can be modified.

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Social Learning and Cognition by Ted L. Rosenthal; Barry J. Zimmerman
ISBN: 9781483276434

Publication Date: 2014

Social Learning and Cognition examines the cognitive mechanisms of social learning and the social learning determinants of cognitive competencies.
Social learning theory and developmental psychology: The legacies of Robert R. Sears and Albert Bandura by Joan E. Grusec
ISBN: 1557982333

Publication Date: 1994

Book chapter offers an evaluation of social learning theory from a historical perspective. It focuses on the work of two major exponents of the position: Robert Sears and Albert Bandura.

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Benjamin S. Bloom

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Bloom, Benjamin S. (1913–1999) in Encyclopedia of Special Education by Elaine Fletcher-Janzen (Editor); Cecil R. Reynolds (Editor)
ISBN: 9780471677987

Publication Date: 2007

Brief overview includes a list of Bloom's major publications.
Bloom, Benjamin Samuel in Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators by Frederik M. Ohles; Shirley G. Ohles; John Ramsay
ISBN: 9780313291333

Publication Date: 1997

Brief overview includes a list of Bloom's publications.
Bloom’s Taxonomy in Salem Press Encyclopedia by Sarah E. Boslaugh
Publication Date: 2022

Research Starter includes a brief history, overview, and bibliography.
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives - The Cognitive Domain in Salem Press Encyclopedia by Jennifer Kretchmar
Publication Date: 2021

Encyclopedia article is a summary of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.

A Conversation with Benjamin Bloom. (1979). Educational Leadership, 37(2), 157.

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All Our Children Learning: New Views on the Work of Benjamin S. Bloom by Thomas R. Guskey
ISBN: 9781412938532

Publication Date: 2006

Book chapter considers how Bloom conceptualized and addressed the problem of achievement gaps, as well as the success that he and his students achieved in resolving the problem through the use of mastery learning.
The Educational Support Materials Writer by M. D. Osborne
ISBN: 9780820486017

Publication Date: 2006

Book chapter examines the components involved in writing educational support materials. The entry notes that making tests begins by knowing how students learn, and being familiar with Benjamin Bloom's model on the six levels of thinking.
Objectives, Evaluation, and the Improvement of Education (Update of Bloom’s Taxonomy) by L.W. Anderson
ISBN: 9781441143778

Publication Date: 2005

The purposes of this chapter are to (1) examine the primary differences between the original Taxonomy and the revision, (2) describe how the revised Taxonomy can be used to examine and improve assessment and instruction, and (3) discuss how the revised Taxonomy can be used to increase our understanding of curriculum alignment, particularly opportunity to learn.
The Power Of Bloom’s Taxonomy And The Study Cycle by Saundra Yancy McGuire
ISBN: 9781620367551

Publication Date: 2018

In this chapter, the authors unleash the power of Bloom’s Taxonomy, often shortened to just Bloom’s. Bloom’s is a hierarchy of learning levels 1 that ascends from very shallow to very deep learning, from rote memorization to the highest levels of understanding and application.
Refining A Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy To Enhance Student Learning In Computer Science Courses by Sofia Tzelepi and Isabella Kotini
ISBN: 9781443871259

Publication Date: 2015

This chapter presents the research efforts on the implementation of the various classifications in teaching programming, identifies the problems arising from the implementation, and proposes a new taxonomy, providing a methodology of the design and evaluation of teaching activities and computational thinking skills.
Understanding Bloom’s Taxonomy When Teaching Questioning Skills by Starr Sackstein
ISBN: 9781475821420

Publication Date: 2015

In this chapter, an interview was conducted with Dr. Connie Hamilton about understanding Bloom’s taxonomy in context. The interview format serves to show one way to explore content as well as provide that content for the reader.

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Jerome Bruner

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Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome Bruner
ISBN: 9780674029019

Publication Date: 1987

Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology, Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self.
The Process of Education by Jerome S. Bruner
ISBN: 9780674028999

Publication Date: 1976

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to foster such early intuitions and then build on them in increasingly formal and abstract ways as education progresses.

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Bruner, Jerome in Encyclopedia of Language Development by Joan M. Lucariello
ISBN: 9781452258768

Publication Date: 2014

Entry explores Bruner's two overarching views: the power of language and the advancement of the cultural basis for cognitive and linguistic growth.
Bruner, Jerome Seymour in Gale Biographies: Popular People by Gale Cengage Learning
Publication Date: 2020

American psychologist Jerome Seymour Bruner (born 1915) made outstanding contributions to the study of perception, cognition, and education.
Jerome S. Bruner in A History of Psychology in Autobiography by Gardner Lindzey (Editor)
ISBN: 0716711192

Publication Date: 1980
Jerome Seymour Bruner (1915-) in Key Thinkers in Psychology by Rom Harre
ISBN: 9781412903455

Publication Date: 2005

Entry contains biographical information, as well as a list of primary and secondary source.

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Human Infancy and the Beginnings of Human Competence by Jerome Bruner
ISBN: 1557986924

Publication Date: 2000

Book chapter examines early infancy and what human beings must be like at the very start of life for them to become the kind of complex, culture-using creatures they end up being.
Jerome Bruner: Language, Culture, Self by David Bakhurst (Editor); Stuart G. Shanker (Editor)
ISBN: 9780761955313

Publication Date: 2001

Focusing on the dominant themes of language, culture and self, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of Bruner's fertile ideas and a considered appraisal of his legacy.
Jerome Bruner: The Cognitive Revolution in Educational Theory by David R. Olson; Richard Bailey (Series edited by)
ISBN: 9781472518866

Publication Date: 2014

Through the unique approach of combining commentary and conversation with Bruner, the author provides an insight into what it is like to engage with one of the intellectual masters of our time and highlights the relevance and importance of his contribution to educational thinking today.

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John Dewey

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Art As Experience by John Dewey; John Dewey
ISBN: 9780399531972

Publication Date: 2005

Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.
Democracy and Education by John Dewey by John Dewey; Patricia H. Hinchey (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781975500214

Publication Date: 2018

Some hundred years after John Dewey worked to illuminate what it means to educate and how public education serves as the bedrock of democracy, his seminal Democracy and Education speaks urgently not only to critical contemporary educational issues but to contemporary political issues as well.
How We Think by John Dewey
ISBN: 9781519501868

Publication Date: 1910

If these pages assist any to appreciate this kinship and to consider seriously how its recognition in educational practice would make for individual happiness and the reduction of social waste, the book will amply have served its purpose.
Interest and Effort in Education (Classic Reprint) by John Dewey
ISBN: 9780260614513

Publication Date: 2017

It is a pleasant privilege to present the following monograph to the profession and the public, for there is no discussion which is more fundamental to the interpretation and reform of current teaching than this statement of the functions of interest and effort in education. Its active acceptance by teachers would bring about a complete transformation of classroom methods.
Moral Principles in Education and My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey by John Dewey; Patricia H. Hinchey (Editor)
ISBN: 9781975501471

Publication Date: 2018

In Moral Principles in Education and My Pedagogic Creed, Dewey reminds readers of public schools' original purpose, identifying specific educational principles and practices that either promote or undermine their essential democratic goals.
Psychology and Social Practice in American Psychology in Historical Perspective by John Dewey
Reprinted with permission from Psychological Review, 1900, 7, 105-124, this chapter presents John Dewey's Presidential Address as read before the American Psychological Association, 1899. In his address, Dewey discusses the bearing of psychology on education to illustrate the way in which psychology impinges on social problems.
The School And The Child, Being Selections From The Educational Essays Of John Dewey by J. J. Findlay (Ed)
Publication Date: 1907

Series of essays taken from The Elementary School Record previously unavailable in the United States.
The Sources of a Science of Education by John Dewey
ISBN: 9781446546932

Publication Date: 1929

Contains a detailed treatise on education, being a comprehensive discussion of education as a science.

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Dewey, John (1859-1952) in Philosophy of Education by J. J. Chambliss (Editor)
ISBN: 9780815311775

Publication Date: 1996

American philosopher and educator widely regarded as the “father of progressive education” and one of the most influential educational philosophers of the twentieth century.
Dewey, John (1859–1952) in Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory by Michael A. Peters (Editor)
ISBN: 9789812875877

Publication Date: 2017

John Dewey (1859–1952) was a pragmatic philosopher, psychologist, and educator commonly regarded as the founder of the progressive education movement.
Dewey and Philosophy of Inclusion in The SAGE Handbook of Inclusion and Diversity in Education by Matthew J. Schuelka (Editor); Christopher J. Johnstone (Editor); Gary Thomas (Editor); Alfredo J. Artiles (Editor)
ISBN: 9781526435552

Publication Date: 2019

Examines Dewey’s democratic educational theory as demonstrated and detailed in his work with teachers at the University of Chicago Lab School at the turn of 20th century.
Dictionary of Education by John Dewey
ISBN: 9781504009270

Publication Date: 2015

With smart, concise definitions pertaining to Dewey's philosophies, editor Ralph B. Winn has constructed a classic dictionary and indispensable tool for anyone who wants ready access to Dewey's most incisive thought on crucial points in the study of education.
John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time by Raymond D. Boisvert
ISBN: 9780791435304

Publication Date: 1997

A concise, eminently readable introduction to the thought of America's most prominent philosopher.Written in a manner accessible to non-specialists, this book provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's philosophy: aesthetics, social and political philosophy, education, the philosophy of religion, and theory of knowledge.
John Dewey’s Philosophy of Democratic Education in A History of Western Philosophy of Education by Megan J. Laverty & David T. Hansen (Eds.)
ISBN: 9781350074439

Publication Date: 2021

Provides an account of Dewey’s philosophy of democratic education, starting with his early theory and then accounting for his mature formulations from School and Society to Democracy and Education.
Pragmatism and John Dewey in Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Philosophy: Education by Macmillan (Editor)
ISBN: 0028662938

Publication Date: 2017

The chapter introduces some of the major ideas of the three pragmatists who established the tradition: Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), the originator; William James (1842–1910), the popularizer; and John Dewey (1859–1952), the systematizer.

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Deweyan Inquiry: From Education Theory to Practice by James Scott Johnston
ISBN: 9780791493557

Publication Date: 2009

Presents John Dewey's theory of inquiry and applies it to various areas of the primary, middle, and secondary school curricula.
The Education of John Dewey by Jay Martin
ISBN: 9780231116763

Publication Date: 2003

Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book tells the full story, for the first time, of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters.
Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey by Thomas S. Popkewitz (Editor)
ISBN: 9780230605145

Publication Date: 2008

This collection includes original studies from scholars from thirteen nations, who explore the epistemic features figured in John Dewey's writings in his discourses on public schooling.
John Dewey's Philosophy of Spirit by John R. Shook (Editor); James A. Good (Editor)
ISBN: 9780823231386

Publication Date: 2010

Two essays by Shook and Good defending this radical viewpoint are joined by the definitive text of Dewey's 1897 Lecture at the University of Chicago on Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit.
John Dewey and Human Development in A Century of Developmental Psychology by Ross D. Parke (Editor); Peter A. Ornstein (Editor); John J. Reiser (Editor); Carolyn Zahn-Wexler (Editor)
ISBN: 1557982333

Publication Date: 1994

Dewey proposed that by elucidating mechanisms for realizing desired values, psychology can be an empirically based instrument for promoting human development and social progress in a democratic society.
John Dewey and Our Educational Prospect: A Critical Engagement with Dewey's Democracy and Education by David T. Hansen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780791469217

Publication Date: 2006

These original essays focus on John Dewey's Democracy and Education, a book widely regarded as one of the greatest works ever written in the history of educational thought.
John Dewey and the Art of Teaching: Toward Reflective and Imaginative Practice by Douglas J. Simpson; Michael J. B. Jackson; Judy C. Simpson
ISBN: 9781412909020

Publication Date: 2004

Reviews the practical implications of Dewey's ideas about the art of teaching for beginning and practicing teachers.
Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy by Phillip Deen (Editor); John Dewey; Larry A. Hickman (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780809330799

Publication Date: 2012

Dewey argues that modern philosophy is anything but; instead, it retains the baggage of outdated and misguided philosophical traditions and dualisms carried forward from Greek and medieval traditions.

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Erik Erikson

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Eight Ages of Man in Childhood and Society - CHAPTER 7 ONLY by Erik H. Erikson
ISBN: 9780393310689

Publication Date: 1993

Open-access chapter of Erikson's classic text.
Identity Youth and Crisis by Erik H. Erikson
ISBN: 9780393311440

Publication Date: 1994

Collects Erik H. Erikson's major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis. Note: Access requires an Academia.edu login.

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Erik Erikson in The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology by Susan B. Gall (Editor)
ISBN: 9780787603724

Publication Date: 2016

Brief entry includes list of Erikson's books.
Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages in The Handy Psychology Answer Book by Lisa J. Cohen
ISBN: 1578595088

Publication Date: 2016

Brief entry entry describing Erikson's seven psychosocial stages: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity Development vs. Role Confusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation, Generativity vs. Stagnation, and Integrity vs. Despair.
Erikson, Erik Homburger in Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators by Frederik M. Ohles; Shirley G. Ohles; John Ramsay
ISBN: 9780313291333

Publication Date: 1997

In the United States Erik Erikson became a major reinterpreter of the work of Sigmund Freud, particularly on identity and life stages. His theories were profoundly influential on the field of child development and indirectly on educational psychology.
Erikson, Erik Homburger in Biographical Dictionary of Psychology by Noel Sheehy (Editor); Antony J. Chapman (Editor); Wendy Conroy (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415285612

Publication Date: 2002

Entry includes listing of principal publications and further reading.
Erikson, Erik in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies by Daniel Thomas Cook (Editor)
ISBN: 9781473942929

Publication Date: 2020

This entry examines Erikson's early life and career, his theory of psychosocial development, and surveys some critiques of this theory.

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Clinical Studies in Childhood Play by Erik Homburger Erikson
ISBN: 9781164515616

Publication Date: 2010

This chapter interprets two short play episodes as if they were contained in a moving picture which can be turned to slow motion or arrest completely in order to keep selected items under sufficient observation.
Erik Erikson's Verbal Portraits: Luther, Gandhi, Einstein, Jesus by Donald Capps
ISBN: 9781442241510

Publication Date: 2014

In Erik Erikson's Verbal Portraits: Luther, Gandhi, Einstein, Jesus, Donald Capps contends that Erikson's portraits of respective historical figures not only reflect his artistic gifts but also make a highly creative contribution to psychoanalytic discourse.
Erik Erikson on Generativity: A Biographer's Perspective by Lawrence Friedman
ISBN: 9781591470342

Publication Date: 2003

Book chapter draws on full-length biography of Erikson (Friedman, 1999) to consider the origins of Erikson's concept of generativity in the context of his own life and in the social history defining his most prolific years.
Erikson on Development in Adulthood: New Insights from the Unpublished Papers by Carol Hren Hoare
ISBN: 9780195131758

Publication Date: 2001

By reconstructing Erikson's theory of adulthood from his unpublished papers, Hoare provides not only a much-needed revision of Erikson's work, but also a glimpse into the mind of one of the 20th century's most profound thinkers.

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Erving Goffman

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Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
ISBN: 9780812211122

Publication Date: 1981

This book brings together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk."

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Goffman, Erving (1922-82) in Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics by R. Mesthrie (Editor)
ISBN: 9780080437262

Publication Date: 2001

Concise overview includes list of Goffman's works.
Goffman, Erving (1922-82) in Key Thinkers in Psychology by Rom Harre
ISBN: 9781412903455

Publication Date: 2005

Presents an overview of Goffman and his contributions.
Goffman, Erving (1922-1982) in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology by Bryan S. Turner (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521832908

Publication Date: 2006

Brief entry about Goffman's life and publications.
Goffman, Erving (1922–1982) in The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies by Tony Blackshaw; Garry Crawford
ISBN: 9781446202326

Publication Date: 2010

Brief overview of Goffman's contribution to an understanding of leisure.
Goffman, Erving in Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology by R. Jon McGee (Editor); Richard L. Warms (Editor)
ISBN: 9781452276304

Publication Date: 2013

Entry includes Goffman's works, legacy, and further reading.

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Beyond Goffman: Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction by Stephen Harold (Editor); Staphen H. Riggins (Editor)
ISBN: 9783110122084

Publication Date: 1990

Collection of original articles which endeavors to expand the scope of theoretical views and empirical research Erving Goffman contributed to the Social Sciences.
The Dramaturgical Approach to Social Psychology: The Influence of Erving Goffman by Theodore R. Sarbin
ISBN: 9781557989802

Publication Date: 2003-02-15

This chapter begins with some descriptive comments about the basic theme of E. Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959). The author reviews a sampling of the conceptual categories in the book that have helped to illuminate many dark corners of the phenomena of social interaction.
Erving Goffman by Tom Burns
ISBN: 9780415064927

Publication Date: 1991

This book offers a compact guide to Goffman's key ideas and the debates they have engendered, and incorporates understandings generated by recent Goffman scholarship.
Framing Social Interaction: Continuities and Cracks in Goffman’s Frame Analysis by Anders Persson
ISBN: 9781472482587

Publication Date: 2018

Through analyses of social media as a possible new interaction order – where frame disputes are frequent – and of interactional power, the applicability of Goffman's frame analysis is illustrated.
Goffman and Social Organization: Studies of a Sociological Legacy by Greg Smith (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415112048

Publication Date: 1999

This collection brings together leading sociologists to pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy.
Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel by Kwang-ki Kim
ISBN: 9780791455395

Publication Date: 2002

Addresses the relationship between modernity and social theory by looking at the works of Parsons, Goffman, and Garfinkel.

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Adolescent Cognition: Thinking in a New Key

Jean Piaget

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The Child's Conception of Physical Causality by Jean Piaget, Jean
ISBN: 9780415209984

Publication Date: 1999

Part of the very beginning of the ground-breaking work of the Swiss naturalist Jean Piaget, is filled with creative experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children.
The Construction of Reality in the Child by Jean Piaget, Jean
ISBN: 9780415210003

Publication Date: 1999

Examines the symmetry between the representation of things and the functional development of intelligence.
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The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence by Jean & Inhelder Piaget, Jean & Inhelder, Brbel
ISBN: 9780415210027

Publication Date: 1999

This book has two aims: to set forth a description of changes in logical operations between childhood and adolescence and to describe the formal structures that mark the completion of the operational development of intelligence.
Origin of Intelligence in the Child by Jean Piaget
ISBN: 9781136221590

Publication Date: 1952

Piaget divides the growth of intelligence into six sequential stages: the use of reflexes; the first acquired adaptations and primary circular reaction; secondary circular reactions and the child's procedures for prolonging spectacles interesting to him.
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Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood by Jean Piaget
ISBN: 9780415210058

Publication Date: 1999

A study of child development in terms of systematic and representative imitation, the structure and symbolism of games and dreams, and the movement from sensory-motor schemas to conceptual schemas.

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Jean Piaget in A History of Psychology in Autobiography, Vol IV. by Edwin G. Boring (Editor)
Publication Date: 1952

To understand what psychology is and what it is becoming, the autobiographies of famous psychologists is history at it best. This chapter presents an autobiographical sketch of Jean Piaget.
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) in Key Thinkers in Psychology by Rom Harre
ISBN: 9781412903455

Publication Date: 2005

The writings of Jean Piaget, extending over decades, present a complex amalgam of philosophy of science, massive observational studies of children at work and at play, and a subtle predilection for the skills and mores of the upper classes of the Europe he knew.
Piaget, Jean in Biographical Dictionary of Psychology by Noel Sheehy (Editor); Antony J. Chapman (Editor); Wendy Conroy (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415285612

Publication Date: 2002

Entry includes a list of principal publications.
Piaget, Jean in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science by L. Nadel (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470016190

Publication Date: 2005

Jean Piaget, one of the founders of cognitive science, established that children build their intelligence through acting in the world and that they develop through a sequence of qualitatively different organizations of thought and action. He related the diverse fields of human knowledge to the developing minds of children.
Piaget, Jean in Encyclopedia of Psychology by Alan E. Kazdin (Editor)
ISBN: 9781557981875

Publication Date: 2000

Presents biographic information about Jean Piaget (1896-1980), a Swiss child psychologist and epistemologist, who is universally known for his studies of the development of intelligence in children.
Piaget, Jean in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies by Daniel Thomas Cook (Editor)
ISBN: 9781473942929

Publication Date: 2020

Discusses Piaget's epistemology, his approaches to truth, necessity, and reason, and concludes with a discussion of Piaget's thoughts on the organization of knowledge.
Piaget and Vygotsky: Theory and Practice in Early Education in 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook (Vol. 2, pp. I-184-I-193). by Thomas L. Good (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412950114

Publication Date: 2008

Provides highlights of personal histories, a discussion of theoretical similarities and differences, and a comparison of how these theories are currently reflected in American educational practices.

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Children's Philosophies in A Handbook of Child Psychology by Jean Piaget
Publication Date: 1931

In this chapter Piaget emphasizes three aspects of 'child ideas,' realism, animism, and artificialism.
Comments by Jean Piaget by Lev S. Vygotsky; Alex Kozulin (Editor)
ISBN: 0262720108

Publication Date: 1986

This document comments on Vygotsky's critical remarks concerning The Language and Thought of the Child and Judgment and Reasoning in the Child by Piaget.
Jean Piaget's enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology in A Century of Developmental Psychology by Ross D. Parke (Editor); Peter A. Ornstein (Editor); John J. Reiser (Editor); Carolyn Zahn-Wexler (Editor)
ISBN: 1557982384

Publication Date: 1994

Highlights the enduring contribution to developmental psychology of Piaget's constructivism, his description of developmental mechanisms, his cognitivism, his explication of structural and functional analysis, and his address of epistemological issues and nontraditional methodologies.
Jean Piaget and the World of the Child (1966) in The Evolution of Psychology by Joseph M. Notterman (Editor)
ISBN: 1557984735

Publication Date: 1997

This report traces his career, and discusses his cognitive theory.
Judgement and Reasoning in the Child by Jean Piaget
ISBN: 9780415210034

Publication Date: 1999

Over a period of six decades, Jean Piaget conducted a program of naturalistic research that has profoundly affected our understanding of child development.
Organization and Pathology of Thought: Selected Sources by David Rapaport
ISBN: ‎9780231015875

Publication Date: 1951

The 27 articles translated from German and French which comprise this volume are extensively annotated and placed in an integrated setting considering the works of three different sources: psychology; psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
NOTE: Includes two chapters by Piaget.
Piaget and Education Primer by David W. Jardine
ISBN: 9780820472614

Publication Date: 2006

Introduces the work of Piaget and provides dozens of classroom-based examples of how that work helps teachers understand the lives of children.
Questions on Social Explanation: Piagetian Themes Reconsidered by Luigia Camaioni; Claudia De Lemos (Editor)
ISBN: 9789027279606

Publication Date: 1985

First, the explanatory role of social interaction, which, for a long time, has been a source of criticism of Piaget's view of intelligence, is dealt with not only in relation to cognitive development, but also to language acquisition and to education. The second point of thematic convergence is the compatibility of genetic epistemology and psychoanalytic theory in view of the establishment of relationships between emotional and cognitive development.
Some Recent Research and Its Link With a New Theory of Groupings and Conservations Based on Commutability by Jean Piaget
ISBN: 1557985243

Publication Date: 1998

Chapter presents an example of the way in which Piaget and his students worked. New formulations regarding the structure of groupings and conservations and classifications are addressed.
What is Psychology? by Jean Piaget
ISBN: 1557984735

Publication Date: 1997

Piaget selects five features describing psychology. The third is most compelling. In this one, he holds that psychology occupies a key position among the sciences because it explains the notions and operations used in the development of all the sciences.

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The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: Child Psychology by Marie J. Hall (Translator); Robert W. Rieber (Editor)
ISBN: 9781461554011

Publication Date: 2012

This volume of Vygotsky's Collected Works contains important writings on the development of human psychology from early childhood to adolescence. The first section contains about one-half of the chapters of Vygotsky's book, Pedology of the Adolescent.
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: Problems of the Theory and History of Psychology by Robert W. Rieber (Editor); L. S. Vygotsky; Jeffrey Wollock (Editor)
ISBN: 9781461558934

Publication Date: 2012

Contains a complete rendition of Thinking and Speech (known to English readers as Thought and Language) and five lectures comprising Vygotsky's systematization of psychological theory and data in respect to the development in childhood of perception, memory, thinking, emotions, imagination, and will.
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: Scientific Legacy by Robert W. Rieber (Editor); L. S. Vygotsky; Marie J. Hall (Translator)
ISBN: 9781461548331

Publication Date: 2012

This volume, the last of six, examines Vygotsky's scientific archives and legacy.
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: The Fundamentals of Defectology (Abnormal Psychology and Learning Disabilities) by Robert W. Rieber (Editor); L. S. Vygotsky; Aaron S. Carton (Editor)
ISBN: 9781461528067

Publication Date: 2012

This volume contains Vygotsky's works on defectology originally published in the 1920's and 1930's as well as some posthumous undated and hitherto unpublished manuscripts.
The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: The History of the Development of Higher Mental Functions by Robert W. Rieber (Editor); Marie J. Hall (Translator); Joseph Glick (Preface by)
ISBN: 9781461559399

Publication Date: 2012

In this volume, readers are introduced to Vygotsky's argument for a theoretical and methodological approach to differentiate "higher" mental functions from the more basic brain processes that other theorists believed were at the center of the psychological apparatus.
Mind in Society by L. S. Vygotsky
ISBN: 9780674076686

Publication Date: 1980

Book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky's important essays.
Thought and Language by Lev S. Vygotsky
ISBN: 9780262720106

Publication Date: 1962

Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought.

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Lev Semionovich Vygotsky (1896-1934) in Key Thinkers in Psychology by Rom Harre
ISBN: 9781412903455

Publication Date: 2005

The main thesis of Vygotsky's developmental psychology was the priority of the social relations between children and their families over the progress of an isolated individual subject to instruction.
Piaget and Vygotsky: Theory and Practice in Early Education in 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook (Vol. 2, pp. I-184-I-193). by Thomas L. Good (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412950114

Publication Date: 2008

Provides highlights of personal histories, a discussion of theoretical similarities and differences, and a comparison of how these theories are currently reflected in American educational practices.
Vygotsky, Lev. in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science by L. Nadel (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470016190

Publication Date: 2005

Russian psychologist Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896–1934) originated sociocultural theory, which regards social interaction between children and more expert members of their culture as the wellspring of cognitive development. Vygotsky’s theory and especially his most influential concept – the zone of proximal development – inspired research into many aspects of teaching and learning.
Vygotsky, Lev in Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy by D. C. Phillips (Editor)
ISBN: 9781452230894

Publication Date: 2014

Presents an overview of that revisionist narrative and the consequent importation of Vygotsky's ideas into the West—albeit sometimes in mutated form— and briefly assesses Vygotsky's continuing influence in the domains of psychology and education theory.
Vygotsky, Lev in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies by Daniel Thomas Cook (Editor)
ISBN: 9781473942929

Publication Date: 2020

Explores theoretical influences and core concepts related to the theorist.
Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development In E. Braaten (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of intellectual and developmental disorders (pp. 1712-1714) by Katherine E. Lewis
ISBN: 9781483392295

Publication Date: 2018

This entry describes the zone of proximal development and focuses specifically on the historical context in which it was first proposed, its utility in assessing and designing instruction, and how the concept has been used with students with disabilities.

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Advanced Language Learning: The Contribution of Halliday and Vygotsky by Heidi Byrnes (Editor)
ISBN: 9781441122254

Publication Date: 2008

The contributors draw primarily on the work of Halliday, Vygotsky and Bakhtin, as well as empirical data from the language classroom, to suggest practical applications towards advanced literacy and linguistic competence.
Big Theory 3: Vygotsky and Social Constructivism. In Supporting Children's Learning: A Guide for Teaching Assistants by Lyn Overall
ISBN: 9781412912747

Publication Date: 2007

This chapter introduces Vygotsky's theory and considers how it is used.
Chapter 4: Vygotsky and the Vygotskyans. In Cognitive Development Today: Piaget and His Critics by Peter A. A. Sutherland
ISBN: 9781853961335

Publication Date: 1992

Examines the application of these schools of thought to teaching pre-school, primary and secondary children.
Charting the Agenda: Educational Activity after Vygotsky by Harry Daniels (Editor)
ISBN: 9780203133019

Publication Date: 2002

Provides readers in education and related fields with an insight into the cultural processes that have influenced the development of Vygotsky’s work.
L. S. Vygotsky and Education by Luis C. Moll
ISBN: 9781136583377

Publication Date: 2013

Presents a summary of Vygtoskian core concepts, constituting a cultural-historical approach to the study of thinking and development.
Lev Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory of Development inAn Introduction to Theories of Human Development by Neil J. Salkind
ISBN: 9780761926399

Publication Date: 2004

Provides a comprehensive view of the primary theoretical models of human development.
Vygotsky: Philosophy and Education by Jan Derry
ISBN: 9781118368763

Publication Date: 2013

Draws on discussions in contemporary philosophy to revise prominent readings of Vygotskian psychology and revisits educational debates where Vygotsky's ideas were central.
Vygotsky and Special Needs Education: Rethinking Support for Children and Schools by Harry Daniels (Editor); Mariane Hedegaard (Editor)
ISBN: 9781441141682

Publication Date: 2011

This is an international guide to using Vygotsky's theories to support children and schools in special needs education.
Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind by James V. Wertsch
ISBN: 9780674045095

Publication Date: 1988

Offers a synthesis and critique of all Vygotsky's major ideas and presents a program for using Vygotskian theory as a guide to contemporary research in the social sciences and humanities.
Vygotsky in Perspective by Ronald Miller
ISBN: 9781139080545

Publication Date: 2011

Provides a critical interpretation of the core theoretical concepts that constitute Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory, including the development of concepts, mediation, the zone of proximal development, conscious awareness, inner speech, word meaning and consciousness.