INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN

Intellectual Development of Young Children In two separate issues of “Time” magazine, the intellectual development of infants and preschoolers was analyzed with contrasting viewpoints regarding the development of their brains and the views regarding how best to encourage the cognitive abilities of these young children. In the earlier issue, dated February 3, 1997, the special report consisting of two articles titled “Fertile Minds” and “The Day-Care Dilemma” the theories of Jean Piaget’s cognitive-development are supported. In …

…symposium on motivation. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. Nash, J. (1997). Fertile Minds. Time, 48-56. Piaget, J. (1932). The moral judgment of the child. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Piaget, J. (1950). The psychology of intelligence. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Piaget, J. (1951). The child's conception of the world. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Piaget, J. (1952). The language and thought of the child. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Tanner, J. M. (1981). Education and physical growth. London: University of London Press.