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Inhelder in her introduction. The reason for this unity is that explanatory adequacy can be attained only by exploring the formative and constructive aspects of development. To explain a psychologic reaction or a cognitive mechanism (at all levels, includ
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with contributions by members of the faculty of the Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, University of Geneva:
JEAN PlACET
Honorary Professor of Psychology Director of the International Center for Genetic Epistemology BARBEL INHELDER
Professor of Genetic and Experimental Psychology GUY CELLERIER
Professor of Cybernetics and Epistemology ELSA SCHl\IID-KITSIKIS
Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology HERMINE SINCLAIR
Professor of Psycholinguistics MAGALI BOVET
Research Associate PlERRE MOUNOUD
Professor of Early Childhood Development Professor of Psychology at the University of Lausanne HAROLD H. CHIPMAN
Research Associate Lecturer in Psycholinguistics at the University of Fribourg CHARLES ZWINGMANN
Professor of Psychology Psychothera PISt Medico-psychological Consultant
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Developmental Psychology
editors BARBEL INHELDER and HAROLD H. CHIPMAN
CHARLES Z\VINGMANN coordinating editor
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SPRINGER-VERLAG
New York
1976
Heidelberg
Berlin
editors: BARBEL INHELDER, Faculte de Psychologie et des Sciences de I'Education, Universite II, 24 rue dll General Dufour, 1211-Geneve 4 HAROLD H. CHIPMAN, FacuIte de Psychologie et des Sciences de I'Edllcation, Universite II, 24 rue du General Dufour, 1211-Geneve 4 coordinating editor: CHARLES ZWINGMANN, 5, avenue J. Trembley, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA Main entry under title: Piaget and His School: A Reader in Developmental Psychology Bibliography: p. 281 Includes indexes. 1. Cognition (Child psychology) 2. Piaget, Jean, 18963. Geneva. Universite. Institut des sciences de l'education (Institut J. J. Rousseau) I. Inhelder, Barbel. II. Chipman, Harold, 1947III. Zwingmann, Charles. BP723.C5P54 155.4'13'0924 75-8903 All rights reserved.
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© 1976 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition
1976
ISBN-13: 978-3-540-07248-5 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-46323-5 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-46323-5
In introducing this volume I have great pleasure in thanking the editors for the idea of bringing together a number of recent studies (1960-70) of the Geneva School of Psychology and the Center for Genetic Epistemology, and above all in thanking my closest collaborator, Professor Barbel Inhelder, for the care and perspicacity with which she chose these texts, without forgetting the valuable help provided by her assistant Harold Chipman. Two aspects of this volume impress me particularly. The first is that, though I have retired-from teaching, not from research-the Geneva School is not only very much alive, but is seen to be continually pursuing new paths if we consider the variety of the problems investigated and the increasing diversification of disciplines: research on learning and the functional processes of development, developmental psycholinguistics, crosscultural investigations, research into clinical and educati
