Word: piaget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Icastic imagery can be found in the models of the crystal ("the self-organizing system") and the flame ("order out of noise"), which Calvino steals from a debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky on the philosophy of science. Under the emblem of the crystal, language is a privileged place where a geometric pattern of meaning may grow despite surrounding disorder. Calvino names Wallace Stevens as a poet of the crystal. Under the emblem of the flame, on the other hand, language unifies disorder by consuming it. William S. Burroughs might be a partisan of the flame...
...Bankrolled by more than 100 business and government sponsors, he has filled his $45 million facility with a group of 120 gifted researchers that includes some of the brightest and quirkiest minds in computer science: Marvin Minsky, dean of artificial-intelligence research; Seymour Papert, disciple of Child Psychologist Jean Piaget and a leading ( advocate of computerized education; Alan Kay, one of the most influential designers of personal computers...
King and Kitchener's work departs from widely accepted theories like those of the celebrated Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. He also described levels of readiness for certain kinds of reasoning, concluding that logical thought begins by age 7 and by 12 escalates to the ability to deal with abstractions like the future. "His emphasis was on logical reasoning," says King. "We are looking at a different domain of problem solving." In that domain, adds Kitchener, "logic alone is not enough for mature judgments...
...Females have always been discrepant data. I'm using the discrepent data to explicate female development and new theory," Gilligan says, pointing to the male-oriented research of Kohlberg, Erik Erickson and Jean Piaget...
...Females have always been discrepent data. I'm using that discrepent data to explicate female development and new theory." Gilligan says, pointing to the male-oriented research of Kohlberg, Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget...