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EJ121221 PS504129

Title: One Intelligence Indivisible
Author(s): Kamii, Constance
Source: Young Children, 30, 4, 228-238, May 75
Publication Date: 1975
Journal Announcement: CIJDEC1975

Discusses how one's conception of intelligence and its development profoundly affects the formulation of educational objectives. A mechanistic conception of intelligence leads to the definition of objectives as a collection of fragmented "cognitive skills", while a Piagetian conception attempts to develop children's intelligence as an organized whole. (CS)

Descriptors: Classification; Cognitive Development; *Cognitive Processes; *Early Childhood Education; *Educational Objectives; Emotional Development; *Intelligence; *Logical Thinking; Models
Identifiers: *Piaget (Jean)