Notes for KJ
October 3, 2007
From: Ch VIII The Problem of Shadows
in Piaget’s book about about children and causality…..you have looked at it I hope..if not I will lend you the book or make a copy of that chapter
Explanations children give fo the existence of shadows
They say it is a “great black cloud” (between four and five years old. It changes later beween 6 and 7 very fast towards more and more realism and scientific accuracy…!!!!!!!
You should film the shadow of a cloud if you can…….
The next big question when they are older..can they predict the side on wjhich the shadow will fall…that means that they can “predict and explain”
(part of knowledge) the source and its location in space…system of reference…..
when we meet remind me to talk about Piagets’ three system of spatial reference……also Don Ide three horizons which I issued to the class by email some two weeks ago.
Play of shadow on a screen …ONE TYPE OF SHADOwshow many types of shadows are there
Another logical association of this line of “predict and explain” is the relationship between the source of light and object (the causes)
and shadow……Piaget calls it “the logic between the object and its shadow….
At 4, 5 old “shadow emanates from the interior of the object
At 5.6 shadow is caused by an external object….tree, the night, the corner of the room
At 6,7 the shadow is itsef an object (a physical reality) a “substance”..
You should look up the meaning of substance as used by Aristotle
At * they can predict where the shadow will fal
ALL OF THESE IDEAS CAN BE INCORPORATED IN TO YOUR FILM
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2 comments:
i really appreciate the notes dan - i read piaget's chapter on shadows but i've certainly overlooked its content. i'm going to have to look through all my notes again and i believe i can make use of a classmates comment on how i can work around some of the words and ideas associated with shadows like "cast."
but most definitely i'm going to have to narrow down what it is i want to be articulate about with shadows and partial knowledge.
Post with intervention. This is late.
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