...Jack Meacham Vygotsky’s sociocultural perspective on the development of mind and Piaget’s constructivist perspective are compared and contrasted within the framework of questions regarding how societies reproduce themselves within the next generation and how cultures are adaptively transformed...

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...Hans G. Furth Piaget’s notion of the permanent object is elaborated as the logical competence to construct mental objects, ushering in a new developmental stage of mind beyond sensorimotor action. The claim is made that mind and mental objects form a societal mental structure that enables children...

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...David R. Olson This essay begins with an examination of the philosophical roots of Bruner’s constructivism and its recent application to the construction of self. The symbolic construction of mind as a part of self is drawn out for special consideration, and its roots in the history of philosophy...

... of Knowledge and Judgment about Excellence in Mind and Virtue vs. Wisdom as Everyday Realization in People and Products Paul B. Baltesa Ute Kunzmannb a Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin and b International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany Key Words Human rationality ` Mind ` Sages ` Virtue...