Thanks for your thoughts here, Dewey! I've always believed that
my undergrads learn child psychology better when I structure
interactive experiences into the course. I guess one of the questions
we were toying with on the list was whether a discussion format
qualifies as a more engaging interactive experience than a lecture
format...
> recommend caution using what is claimed to be the 'Piagetian framework of
> "concrete operational" thought versus "formal operational" thought.' This
> version of Piaget was popularized by people who apparently neither
> understood his beliefs concerning the nature of knowledge nor that he lived
> an worked and evolved his notions several decades _after_ trying to
I agree with your recommendation for caution, but would be interested
in hearing more about how you would characterize differences in child
and adult learning, if any.
Robin