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Adapt: A Multidisciplinary Piagetian-Based Program For College Freshmen, Robert Fuller
Adapt: A Multidisciplinary Piagetian-Based Program For College Freshmen, Robert Fuller
ADAPT Program: Essays
At 9:30 am, on Thursday, February 1, 1973, I was sitting in the Trianon Ballroom in the Hilton Hotel in New York City listening to a talk by John W. Renner on "Intellectual Development and Science Teaching", based on the work of Jean Piaget (Renner, 1972). During his discussion of how the world looked to a science student using concrete reasoning I had an "ah-ha" experience. When I got back to the UNL campus, I found out that Renner's talk was based on his earlier paper in the American Journal of Physics, "Are Colleges Concerned With Intellectual Development?" (McKinnon & …