Values and Knowledge

The chapters in this book emerged from a set of concerns with values and developments articulated by the editors in the 23rd Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society in 1993, with guidance from the Society's Board of Directors.

List of contents

Contents: Preface. E.S. Reed, Selves, Values, Cultures. I.C. Uzgiris, Together and Apart: The Enactment of Values in Infancy. L.P. Nucci, Morality and the Personal Sphere of Actions. S.M. Okin, The Gendered Family and the Development of a Sense of Justice. E. Turiel, Equality and Hierarchy: Conflict in Values. L. Ross, A. Ward, Naive Realism in Everyday Life: Implications for Social Conflict and Misunderstanding. T. Brown, Values, Knowledge, and Piaget.

About the author

Elliot Turiel, Terrance Brown

Summary

A person's values affects profoundly what he/she attends to, thinks about and remembers. This text begins with an overview of what is known about the developmental role of valuation in the acquisition of knowledge and examines ideas of the connection between evaluation and thinking.

Product details

• Assisted by: Terrance Brown (Editor), Edward S Reed (Editor), Edward S. Reed (Editor), Elliot Turiel (Editor)
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9780805815214
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-1521-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 437 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works