A Design for Development:

 The Legacy of Robbie Case
 
October 6 and 7, 2000
 
Croft Chapter House & Rm.179
University College
University of Toronto

 Juan Pascual-Leone


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The Spiral of Development in Robbie Case's Staircase Model

A major insight of Robbie's theoretical work is that forms in cognitive development recur in cycles. For instance, 3- or 4-year-olds (i.e., substage 3 of the Interrelational stage) show a functional-structural relation to children in the preceding sensorimotor substages analogous to that of 15- or 16-year-olds vis-a-vis children in the mental-processing (or school age) substages of the Dimensional (Concrete Operational) stage. Other functional-structural similarities of this sort are found in Robbie's model which, along with my levels of M-capacity growth and learning mechanisms, both of which he accepted, explicate the "spiral of development" idea in ways that may open new possibilities. This is a controversial but important issue for development and education.

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