Demetriou / Spanoudis Growing Minds

A Developmental Theory of Intelligence, Brain, and Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-134-98499-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

Interest in the human mind is a centuries-old fascination, dating back to Plato, Aristotle and Descartes. While the theories proposed about the human mind have since advanced and evolved, the fascination remains. Growing Minds is a unique and interdisciplinary work that guides the reader through an examination of the human mind's nature, performance, life-span, and variations.

The book sets out to answer a variety of questions:

- What are the cognitive processes underlying intelligence?

- What is general and what is specific in intelligence?

- What is stable and what is changing in intelligence as children grow older?

- Why do individuals differ in intelligence, and are differences genetically determined?

- How is intelligence and intellectual development related to the genome and the brain?

- How is intelligence related to personality?

- Can intelligence be enhanced by specific interventions?

The text is organised into three parts: the first provides a summary and evaluation of research conducted on the human mind by experimental cognitive psychology, differential psychology, and developmental psychology. The second presents an overarching theory of the growing mind, showing how mind and intelligence are at the crossroads of nature and nurture; and the third assesses the relationship between education and intelligence.

This book is the result of decades of extensive research and culminates in the proposal of a new overarching and integrated theory of the developing mind. For the first time, research is gathered and combined to form a comprehensive concept and fulfils the need for a fresh, integrative paradigm which both asks and answers questions about the human mind from a multi-faceted perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demetriou, Andreas

Spanoudis, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Three Traditions of Research on the Human Mind

Chapter 1_0: Introduction

Chapter 1_1: The Experimental Cognitive Tradition

Chapter 1_2: Differential Tradition

Chapter 1_3: Piaget's Theory

Chapter 1_4: Neo-Piagetian Theories

Chapter 1_5: The Development of Reasoning

Chapter 1_6: Awareness and Knowledge About the Mind

Chapter 1_7: Core Domains

Part 2: An Overarching Theory of the Growing Mind

Chapter 2_1: The Organization of the Human Mind

Chapter 2_2: Cycles and Phases of Development

Chapter 2_3: Recycling and Mediation of Cognizance

Chapter 2_4: Differentiation and Binding of Mental Processes Through Developmental Cycles

Chapter 2_5: Personality and Emotions in the Mind

Chapter 2_6: Genetic, Psychological and Cultural Aspects of the Mind

Chapter 2_7: Mapping Mind-Brain Development

Part 3: A Developmental Theory of Instruction

Chapter 3_1: School and Intellectual Development

Chapter 3_2: Enhancing Intelligence in the Laboratory

Chapter 3_3: Towards A Theory of Instruction

Chapter 3_4: Educating Critical Thought

Chapter 4_1: Conclusions: Towards an Overarching Theory of the Developing Mind

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Demetriou is Professor of Psychology and President of the University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Cyprus. He was the Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus, and President of the National Research Council of Cyprus.

George Spanoudis is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Cyprus.