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Children's understanding of the concept of number has been studied by various well-known psychologists from Binet in the late nineteenth century through Piaget in the twentieth, up to numerous cont...emporary workers, prominent among whom is Dr. Peter Bryant, who presents this programme. He has been responsible for research which seems to indicate that the apparent inability of young children to grasp the conservation of number, the subject of a famous demonstration by Piaget, is not a true inability, but the conflict of reasonable judgements about length and number. By altering the design of the sequence of tasks given to children to explore s, their true abilities are revealed, and these include, even at the ages of three and four, an understanding of number conservation.
Children's understanding of the concept of number has been studied by various well-known psychologists from Binet in the late nineteenth century through Piaget in the twentieth, up to numerous cont...emporary workers, prominent among whom is Dr. Peter Bryant, who presents this programme. He has been responsible for research which seems to indicate that the apparent inability of young children to grasp the conservation of number, the subject of a famous demonstration by Piaget, is not a true inability, but the conflict of reasonable judgements about length and number. By altering the design of the sequence of tasks given to children to explore s, their true abilities are revealed, and these include, even at the ages of three and four, an understanding of number conservation.
| Module code and title: | E201, Personality and learning |
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| Item code: | E201; 10 |
| Recording date: | 1975-12-22 |
| First transmission date: | 11-04-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:22 |
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| Producer: | Meg Sheffield |
| Contributor: | Peter Bryant |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Binet; Number conservation |
| Master spool number: | BLN52FW516 |
| Production number: | BLN52FW516 |
| Available to public: | no |
