Jean Piaget Symposia Series
About the Book Series
Each year, following their annual meeting, the Jean Piaget Society publishes an edited volume. This approximately 300-page volume covers the main themes of the symposium and is published by Psychology Press.
Members of the society receive the volume free of charge. Non-members can order copies from this website.
About the Jean Piaget Society
The Jean Piaget Society, established in 1970, has an international, interdisciplinary membership of scholars, teachers and researchers interested in exploring the nature of the developmental construction of human knowledge. The Society was named in honor of the Swiss developmentalist, Jean Piaget, who made major theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of the origins and evolution of knowledge.
The Society's aim is to provide an open forum, through symposia, books, our journal, and other publications, for the presentation and discussion of scholarly work on issues related to human knowledge and its development. The Society further encourages the application of advances in the understanding of development to education and other domains.
In 1989, the name of the Society was changed to Jean Piaget Society: Society for the Study of Knowledge and Development.
You can find out more on the Jean Piaget Society website at http://www.piaget.org/ .
Development and Vulnerability in Close Relationships
1st Edition
Edited
By Gil G. Noam, Kurt W. Fischer
June 17, 2013
How do people develop in their important relationships? How do two people come together to form a new, close relationship? How do relationships affect or determine who we are and who we become? These questions should be central to the study of mind and development, but most researchers neglect ...
Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development: The Development and Consequences of Symbolic Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes
February 14, 2013
Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whether that involves communicating linguistically, ...
Changing Conceptions of Psychological Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Cynthia Lightfoot, Michael Chandler, Chris Lalonde
November 28, 2012
Changing Conceptions of Psychological Life is an interdisciplinary look at personal constructions of self. This book is a product of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society. The contributing authors constitute the original cast invited to speak on the theme of how individuals come to ...
Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness
1st Edition
Edited
By Willis Overton, Ulrich Mueller, Judith Newman
November 28, 2012
Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology. Recently however, several conceptions of the relation between body and mind have been developed. Common among these conceptions is the idea that the body ...
Social Development, Social Inequalities, and Social Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Cecilia Wainryb, Judith G. Smetana, Elliot Turiel
November 28, 2012
This volume considers previously separate bodies of research on social justice, social equality, and social development. Eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss the latest research to help us understand the relation between social inequalities and social development. In so doing, the...
Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip David Zelazo, Michael Chandler, Eveline Crone
August 16, 2012
This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born ...
Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrich Mueller, Jeremy I.M. Carpendale, Nancy Budwig, Bryan Sokol
August 16, 2012
In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge. The book integrates approaches from a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, psychopathology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, ...
Art and Human Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Constance Milbrath, Cynthia Lightfoot
July 27, 2012
This interdisciplinary volume explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, contributors examine the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part ...
Play and Development: Evolutionary, Sociocultural, and Functional Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Artin Goncu, Suzanne Gaskins
January 15, 2007
Children's play is a universal human activity, and one that serves a significant purpose in personal development. Throughout this volume, which is an extension of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, the editors and contributors explore assumptions about play and its status as a ...
Piaget's Theory: Prospects and Possibilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Harry Beilin, Peter B. Pufall
March 01, 1992
This volume marks the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. Some of the American contributors were among the first to introduce Piaget to developmental and educational psychology in the United States, while some of the international contributors worked with Piaget to develop his ...
Thought and Emotion: Developmental Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By D. J. Bearison, H. Zimiles
December 01, 1985
First published in 1985. The purpose of this book reflects the 1983 Piaget Society decision to contribute some ideas to a critical problem in psychology: how the structure and function of intelligence and affectivity are developmentally related. Although this is a fundamental question in psychology...
Piaget and the Foundations of Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynn S. Liben
December 01, 1983
First published in 1983. This volume is drawn from the Tenth Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. The theme of that Symposium, selected by the Board of Directors of the Society, was Piaget and the Foundations of Knowledge. The goal of the Symposium was to provide a critical discussion of ...