| Activity | Date of Birth: 14/10/1943-29/12/2020
University Qualifications and Professional Training:
BA Philosophy, King's College, University of London, 1967
PhD, School of Education, University of Leicester, 1982
Honours and Awards:
Fellow British Psychological Society, 1996
Professional Career:
School Teacher, no date
Further Education Teacher, 1969-
Reader/ Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, 1983-2001
Professor of Psychology and Epistemology of Development, Lancaster University, 2001-2004
Professor Emeritus, Freelance Researcher, Lancaster University, 2004-
Involvement with BPS and other societies etc.
BPS Fellowship Committee, 1997-2001
BPS Graduate Qualifications Admissions Committee (GQAC), 1992-1996
BPS Developmental Psychology Section, National Committee Member 1993-1995
BPS Education Section, Member of National Committee 1987-1997
Associate Editor, British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998-2008.
Sources: L Smith's CV.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Selected Publications:
Books:
Jean Piaget: critical assessments. London: Routledge (1992)
Vol.1 Intelligence and understanding
Vol.2 Children's thinking
Vol.3 Education and society
Vol. 4 Intellectual development
Necessary knowledge: Piagetian perspectives on constructivism. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1993)
Sociological studies (Etudes Sociologiques, 1977. Translation editor Leslie Smith). London: Routledge (1995)
Critical readings on Piaget. London: Routledge (1996)
Reasoning by mathematical induction in children's arithmetic. Oxford: Pergamon Press (2002)
Norms in human development (with J.Voneche). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2006
Cambridge companion to Piaget (with U.Muller, J.Carpendale). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2009)
Selected Papers:
2019
Jean Piaget
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies
Editor: Daniel Thomas Cook
Newbury Park: CA: SAGE Publishing
Critical Interview (Piagetian)
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies
Editor: Daniel Thomas Cook
Newbury Park: CA: SAGE Publishing
2018
Piaget's infancy journal: epistemological issues. Constructivist Foundations, 14(1), 85-87.
Deduction and a priori knowledge
Paper in the symposium Piaget’s Epistemology
Jean Piaget Society, 48th Annual Meeting, 31 May - 2 June, 2018, Amsterdam
2017
Knowledge in mind: Piaget's epistemology
In D.M.Carré, J. Valsiner, S. Hampl (eds.).Representing Development: pasts, presents and futures of transformative models
London: Routledge
2016
Jean Piaget
In J. A. P. Cooper (ed.). Routledge Encyclopaedia of Educational Thinkers. London: Routledge.
2014
Jean Piaget
Available online
Annotated Oxford Bibliographies
2013
From facts to norms in scientific epistemology - can you get away with it?
Human Development, Letters to the Editor, March 25, 2013.
2012
Piaget’s méthode critique and developmental epistemics
Colloque: Psychologies de l’enfant et du développement: innovation, impacts, influences
17-18 October 2012, UniMail FPSE Université de Genève.
Text available - use CONTACT on this website
2011
1. Commentary on Vygotsky
2. Essay on necessity
3. Reason
4. Piaget's final interview with Voyat in 1980
1, 2 and 3 are pre-print texts, 4 is a previously unpublished interview
Available online - click on this link
Four texts by Jean Piaget
2010
Knowledge a priori - from Plato and Kant to Piaget
In Erna Nairz-Wirth (ed.). Aus der Bildungsgesichte lernen, pp. 135-147. Vienna: Erhard Löcker.
Available online - click on this link
Littérature secondaire II
Piaget: recent work
In Penelope Peterson, Eva Baker, Barry McGaw, (eds.). International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd edition, Vol. 5, pp. 218-224. Oxford: Elsevier.
2009
chap 1: Jean Piaget: from boy to man
chap 1: Reading Piaget in English
chap 3: Piaget's developmental epistemology
chap 15: Piaget's pedagogy
The Cambridge Companion to Piaget
[co-edited with Ulrich Müller & Jeremy Carpendale]
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox: how to resolve it with lessons for psychology
New Ideas in Psychology, 27, 228-242.
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Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox
From Origins to Destinations on the Right Track
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, 61-64.
Review of: Catherine Sophian. The Origins of Mathematical Knowledge in Childhood. Erlbaum, 2007.
Development and Motivation BJEP Monograph
2008
Mathematical induction and its formation during childhood
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 669-670.
Reason has its own reasons
Human Development, 51, 148-152.
Review of: Philip Johnson-Laird. How We Reason.
Oxford University Press, 2006.
2007
Logic and Rationality
British Journal of Educational Psychology (2007), 77, 246-248.
Review of: Robert Hanna. Logic and Rationality. MIT Press, 2006.
2006
Chap 1: Norms in human development: introduction
Chap 5: Norms and normative facts in human development
Norms in human development
[co-edited with Jacques Vonèche]
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Reason
New Ideas in Psychology, 24, 1-29.
Translation and commentary, Jean Piaget's "La Raison".
Click on this link
Reason
Education for Thinking
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 680-81.
Review of: Deanna Kuhn. Education for Thinking. Harvard University Press, 2005.
Conflict, contradiction, and contrarian
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 76, 678-79.
Review of: Larry Nucci. Conflict, contradiction, and contrarian elements in moral development and education. Erlbaum, 2005.
2005
Developmental Psychology and Education
In B. Hopkins (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Arithmetic Concepts, Skills, and Reasoning
American Journal of Psychology, 118 (3), 489-96.
Review of: Arthur J. Baroody, and Ann Dowker. The Development of Arithmetic Concepts and Skills: constructing adaptive expertise. Erlbaum, 2003.
Studies in reflecting abstraction
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 75, 518-19.
Review of: Jean Piaget. Studies in reflecting abstraction. Psychology Press, 2001.
The Essential Child
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 75, 331-33.
Review of: Susan A Gelman. The Essential Child: origins of essentialism in everyday thought. Oxford University Press, 2003.
2004
Acts of Judgement, not Epistemic Triangles
Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 27, 122-23
Developmental Epistemology and Education
In J. Carpendale & U. Müller (eds.). Social interaction and the development of knowledge. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Intentionality in conceptual change and constructivism
American Journal of Psychology (2004), 117, 283-93.
Review of: Gale M Sinatra and Paul R Pintrich. Intentional conceptual change. Erlbaum, 2003.
Education and mind in the knowledge age
British Journal of Educational Psychology, 74, 127-28.
Review of: Carl Bereiter. Education and mind in the knowledge age. Erlbaum, 2002.
2003
Chap 9: From epistemology to psychology in the development of knowledge.
Reductionism and the development of knowledge
(co-edited with Terrance Brown)
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2003
Chap 1: Introduction
Chap 12: Conclusion
Development and Motivation: joint perspectives
(co-edited with Colin Rogers)
Leicester: British Psychological Society.
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Introduction to children's mathematical development and education
International Journal of Educational Research, 39, 643-650.
Children's reasoning by mathematical induction: causal facts and normative facts
International Journal of Educational Research, 39, 719-42.
Internality of mental representation: twenty questions for interactivism
Consciousness and Emotion, 4, 305-24.
Teaching reasoning in a constructivist epistemology
Educational and Child Psychology, 20, 31-50.
Text available online - click on this link
Teaching reasoning in a constructivist epistemology
2002
Reasoning by mathematical induction in children’s arithmetic
Oxford: Elsevier Pergamon Press.
Piaget's model
In U. Goswami (ed.) Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development. Oxford: Blackwell.
Jean Piaget 1968-1979
British Journal of Developmental Psychology (2002), 20, 152-54.
Review of: J-J Ducret. Jean Piaget 1968-1979: une décennie de recherches sur les mécanismes de construction cognitive. Genève, 2000.
Unity and modularity
British Journal of Educational Psychology (2002), 72, 300-03.
Review of: Andreas Demetriou & Smaragda Kazi. Unity and modularity in the mind and the self. Routledge, 2001.
2001
Harré on Piaget's Sociological Studies [with Wolfe Mays].
New Ideas in Psychology, 19, 221-36
Jean Piaget
In J. A. Palmer (ed.). 50 Modern thinkers on education: from Piaget to the
present. London: Routledge.
2000
Commentary on Vygotsky's criticism
New Ideas in Psychology, 18, 241-59.
Translation/commentary with addendum: Jean Piaget "Commentaire sur les remarques critiques de Vygotski".
1994
The development of modal understanding: Piaget's Possibility and Necessity, New Ideas in Psychology, 12, 73-78, (1994)
1992
Psychology in education. The Psychologist, 5, 114-116 (1992)
1982
Class inclusion and conclusions about Piaget's theory, British Journal of Psychology, 73, 267-276, (1982)
1981
Piaget mistranslated. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 34, 1-3 (1981)
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