Anne McKeough
Outline of Talk
Central Social Structures in Childhood and Adolescence: Mapping
the Development of Narrative Thought
Working within a neo-Piagetian tradition, Case proposed that common conceptual underpinnings among task-specific cognitive structures yield up superstructures. These central conceptual structures (CCS) are thought to apply to a range of tasks, transcend conventionally defined domains and influence performance across a broad yet delimited range of tasks. CCS are comprised of semantic nodes and relations that must be learned, may be culturally specific in content (especially at the more advanced developmental levels), and are thought to be subject to developmental constraints. In this presentation I will discuss CCS as they appear in the social domain, arguing that increasingly complex narrative structures undergird children's and adolescents' performance.
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