Zopito Marini
Outline of Talk
A Tribute to Robbie Case: Builder of Developmental Staircases and Bridges
Robbie Case's remarkable intellect left large imprints on both developmental and educational psychology. In building his own developmental staircase, he offered some of us a privileged view of the leading edge of developmental psychology. A brilliant theoretician with an outstanding ability to communicate and a passion for exploration, Robbie was able to build empirical bridges within and across domains of knowledge critical to the wellbeing of children. This presentation will focus on some of these bridge-building studies from a first-hand perspective by outlining some of the earlier difficulties encountered in exploring the relationship between cognitive and social development. The presentation will conclude by outlining some of the present day rewards in the application of Robbie's general framework to the study of atypical social development found in peer-aggression, victimization and school bullying.
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