Abstract
What is Development?
Development is a latent construct. We cannot see it directly, it is more than just change, it is more than just the concrete, it concerns more than just an individual, and it is more than just something determined by age.
Understanding development requires combining the ideas of self-organizing processes with hierarchical complexity leading to conceiving a process with states that build on the previous to create something more general, abstract, and advanced.
This means that to model development properly we need both a time and a complexity level dimension in the model, without conflating them, in a model with two separate dimensions underlying developmental change and one outcome dimension that represents the likelihood of responding.
Time refers to a process which implies changes for an entity. This is the chronological temporal dimension of development. But time elapsing does not imply or guarantee development: development takes time but the reverse need not hold.
Complexity level refers to logical dimension and is related to learning in an abstract sense leading to more encompassing structures which incorporate the lower structure as (modified) substructure in a new higher structure.
Use refers to the likelihood of responding in accordance with one of the complexity levels.
Development is a latent construct. We cannot see it directly, it is more than just change, it is more than just the concrete, it concerns more than just an individual, and it is more than just something determined by age.
Understanding development requires combining the ideas of self-organizing processes with hierarchical complexity leading to conceiving a process with states that build on the previous to create something more general, abstract, and advanced.
This means that to model development properly we need both a time and a complexity level dimension in the model, without conflating them, in a model with two separate dimensions underlying developmental change and one outcome dimension that represents the likelihood of responding.
Time refers to a process which implies changes for an entity. This is the chronological temporal dimension of development. But time elapsing does not imply or guarantee development: development takes time but the reverse need not hold.
Complexity level refers to logical dimension and is related to learning in an abstract sense leading to more encompassing structures which incorporate the lower structure as (modified) substructure in a new higher structure.
Use refers to the likelihood of responding in accordance with one of the complexity levels.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 1 |
| Publication status | Unpublished - 9 Jun 2016 |
| Event | 46th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society: Places and Spaces in Children's Lives - HOLIDAY INN CHICAGO MART PLAZA, Chicago, United States Duration: 9 Jun 2016 → 11 Jun 2016 Conference number: 46 http://www.piaget.org/Symposium/2016/ |
Conference
| Conference | 46th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society |
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| Abbreviated title | JPS |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Chicago |
| Period | 9/06/16 → 11/06/16 |
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Keywords
- modelling approaches
- Development Trajectories
- Overlapping waves