Development of Adult Thinking: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cognitive Development and Adult Learning

✍ Scribed by Eeva K. Kallio

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Development of Adult Thinking is a timely synthesis and evaluation of the current knowledge and emerging issues relating to adult cognitive development and learning.

Focusing on psychological and educational cutting-edge research as well as giving an overview of the key theorists such as Piaget and Kohlberg, Kallio and the team of expert contributors offer a holistic view on the development of adult thinking, representing perspectives from developmental, moral, and social psychology, as well as education and philosophy. These topics are divided into three sections: Adult cognitive and moral development, Perspectives of adult learning, and Open questions and new approaches, offering introduction, analysis, and directions for future research.

This text is essential reading for students and researchers in developmental psychology and related courses as well as adult educators and teachers working in adult education.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1. Introduction
PART I: Adult cognitive and moral development
2. From multiperspective to contextual integrative thinking in adulthood: considerations on theorisation of adult thinking and its place as a component of wisdom
3. Integrating epistemic knowledge and logical reasoning skills in adult cognitive development
4. Personal epistemologies and social representations: and how they meet in people’s conceptions of the origin of human species
5. Duties and responsibilities in adulthood: integrating care and justice perspectives
6. Broadening the view of morality, and a study of moral development
PART II: Perspectives of adult learning
7. Adult learners and theories of learning
8. Developing learning and teaching practices for adults: perspectives from conceptual change and metacognition research
9. Tacit knowledge and knowing at the core of individual and collective expertise and professional action
10. Professional expertise, integrative thinking, wisdom, and phronēsis
PART III: Open questions and new approaches
11. Challenges in exploring individual’s conceptions of knowledge and knowing: examples of research on university students
12. Systems thinking and adult cognitive development
13. Logical contradiction, contrary opposites, and epistemological relativism: critical philosophical reflections on the psychological models of adult cognitive development
Index

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