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1. Change and Development

   Issues of Theory, Method, and Application

   Edited by Eric Amsel, K. Ann Renninger, Ann Renninger

   Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

   This book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address four critical issues in understanding development: explanation of change and development; the nature and process of change; forms of variability in...

   Published June 30th 1997 by Psychology Press
2. The Development and Meaning of Psychological Distance

   Edited by Rodney R. Cocking, K. Ann Renninger, Ann Renninger

   One of the paradoxes in developmental theory is the child's simultaneous intrapsychic and interpsychic development. While the child is growing in mental capacity and struggling to define self, behaviors are also being learned whose function is to integrate self into a social network, which often...

   Published February 28th 1993 by Psychology Press
3. The Role of interest in Learning and Development

   Edited by K. Ann Renninger, Suzanne Hidi, Andreas Krapp, Ann Renninger

   Interest is just emerging as a critical bridge between cognitive and affective issues in both learning and development. This developing "interest" in interest appears to be linked to an increasing concern for studying the individual in context, examining affective variables as opposed to purely...

   Published April 30th 1992 by Psychology Press