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Adolescent Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
Eric Amsel
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Description for Adolescent Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
hardcover. Explores the importance of considering how adolescents coordinate different types of activities in their interactions and in development. Editor(s): Amsel, Eric; Smetana, Judith. Series: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge and Development. Num Pages: 228 pages, 21 b/w illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
This book explores the central importance of adolescents' own activities in their development. This focus harkens back to Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology and provides a theoretically coherent vision of what makes adolescence a distinctive period of development, with unique opportunities and vulnerabilities. An interdisciplinary and international group of contributors explore how adolescents integrate neurological, cognitive, personal, interpersonal and social systems aspects of development into more organized systems.
This book explores the central importance of adolescents' own activities in their development. This focus harkens back to Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology and provides a theoretically coherent vision of what makes adolescence a distinctive period of development, with unique opportunities and vulnerabilities. An interdisciplinary and international group of contributors explore how adolescents integrate neurological, cognitive, personal, interpersonal and social systems aspects of development into more organized systems.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Series
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge and Development
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521768467
SKU
V9780521768467
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Ref
99-24
About Eric Amsel
Eric Amsel teaches at Weber State University, where he is University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department. He has also taught at the University of Saskatchewan and Vassar College. Amsel has published three other books: The Development of Scientific Thinking Skills (1998, with Deanna Kuhn and Michael O'Loughlin); Change and Development: Issues of Theory, Method and Application (1998, ... Read more
Reviews for Adolescent Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
“Piaget would not have been surprised by the adolescents of the 21st century. In this worthy addition to the distinguished Jean Piaget Symposium Series, the editors begin with a Piagetian vision of adolescents as rational agents and active contributors to their own development, which is seen as a constructive process of coordination and reflection. The authors proceed in a variety ... Read more