Values and Knowledge (Jean Piaget Symposia Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080581521X ISBN 13: 9780805815214

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1996

Synopsis

It is widely recognized that a person's values will profoundly affect what that person attends to, thinks about, and remembers. Yet, despite this, psychologists have only begun to study and think about the deep connections between values and knowledge.

This volume explores this important area in psychology by offering an overview of what is known about the developmental role of valuation in the acquisition of knowledge, and also by examining a range of new ideas for understanding the intricate connection between evaluation and thinking. More specifically, the text:

• provides a historical overview of philosophical and psychological theories relating the values and knowledge;
• reviews the importance of values for infants and their caretakers in the origins of both cognition and social relations;
• offers a provocative view of how the differences among families in their values may have profound affects on psychological development;
• explicates the development of a personal sphere within which one strives to shape one's own values;
• emphasizes the heterogeneity of valuation inherent in every culture and how conflicts of values are likely to be common and important to human development;
• presents eye-opening research on social-cognitive limitations of average people in respecting the points of view of others; and
• summarizes and critiques Piaget's theory of the role of values in development.

For practitioners in the fields of developmental and social psychology, and education, this volume will introduce a number of important and current issues, from multiculturality and gender to the differential roles of temperament and upbringing in development. The emphasis is placed squarely on developing individuals and how they shape themselves in a world that is structured by values as well as by facts.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Edward S. Reed, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology at Franklin & Marshall College. His research on ecological psychology has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation, and a
Guggenheim fellowship.
Elliot Turiel is Chancellor's Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Affiliate in the Department of Psychology. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (1994 99) and Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Education. He is author of The Development of Social Knowledge: Morality and Convention, and is editor or co-editor of Values and Knowledge, Development and Cultural Change: Reciprocal Processes, and Culture, Thought and Development.

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080581521X
• ISBN 13: 9780805815214
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182
• Editor: Reed Edward S., Turiel Elliot, Brown Terrance