Planning is an important human ability that guides behaviour
and thereby complements instinctual fixed action patterns. How do
people learn to plan? How do they develop the various skills that
are implied by planfulness? This volume explores these questions as
well as the concept of planning and its relationships to the
concepts of problem-solving and organizational skills. The editors
of this volume have drawn upon an international cadre of scholars
to discuss the issues of planning and planful behaviours from a
broad range of perspectives. The volume offers a comprehensive
review and critical analysis of research and theory on the
development of planning ability. Cognitive and developmental
psychologists, educational researchers, and students hitherto
frustrated by the complexity of the thinking about planning and
fragmentation of the literature will find Blueprints for Thinking
an invaluable resource.
目錄:
List of contributors
Foreword Jerome Kagan
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Prevalence of Planning: 1. The planning construct in
the psychological literature Ellin Kofsky Scholnick and Sarah L.
Friedman
2. Planning in cross-cultural settings Robert A. Randall
Part II. Models and Conceptions of Planning: 3. A
cognitive-developmental model of planning Richard De Lisi
4. Plans and planning: their motivational and cognitive antecedents
Shulamith Kreitler and Hans Kreitler
5. Social aspects of planning Jacqueline J. Goodnow
Part III. Children''s Skills of Planning: 6. Conceptions and
processes of planning: the developmental perspective Shulamith
Kreitler and Hans Kreitler
7. Planning in a chore-sheduling task Roy D. Pea and Jan
Hawkins
8. Children''s adjustment of plans to circumstances Barbara Rogoff,
Mary Gauvain and William Gardner
9. Action planning competencies during adolescence and early
adulthood Michael Dreher and Rolf Oerter
10. Cognitive and social variables in the plan of action Louis
Oppenheimer
Part IV. Influences on Planning: 11. Familial influences on
planning Ann V. McGillicuddy-De Lisi, Richard De Lisi, Janice
Flaugher and Irving E. Sigel
12. Social influences on representational awareness: plans for
representing and plans as representation Rodney R. Cocking and
Carol E. Copple
Part V. Instruction of Planning: 13. Instruction in problem solving
and planning Martin V. Covington
Part VI. Conclusion: 14. Reflections on reflections: what planning
is and how it develops Sarah L. Friedman, Ellin Kofsky Scholnick
and Rodney R. Cocking
Name index
Subject index.