Michel Ferrari & Ljiljana Vuletic 
Developmental Relations among Mind, Brain and Education 
Essays in Honor of Robbie Case

Robert S. Siegler Robbie Case: A Modern Classic About 15 years ago, Robbie asked me what I thought of a talk we had just heard. I indicated that I hadn’t much liked it and noted several serious problems. Robbie agreed with all of the criticisms, but said that he nonetheless liked the talk, because there was one good idea in it that he could use. I agreed with him that the idea was a good one, but it took me a while to understand the wisdom of his position. If there’s one useful idea in a talk, then hearing it has been worthwhile, even if the talk also has numerous de?ciencies. On that day and on many others, talking with Robbie changed my thinking for the better. Robbie Case was in many ways a classic developmental psychologist of the old school. The depth and breadth of his theory; the range of age groups, populations, and topics that he studied; and his efforts to connect theory and application are all reminiscent of the greats of the past: Baldwin, Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner.

Table of Content

Developing Mind and Brain.- A Three-Level Model of the Developing Mind: Functional and Neuronal Substantiation and Educational Implications.- Mental Attention, Multiplicative Structures, and the Causal Problems of Cognitive Development.- Higher-Order Network Reworking – New Findings.- Typical and Atypical Development of Basic Numerical Magnitude Representations: A Review of Behavioral and Neuroimaging Studies.- Children’s Developing Understanding of Number: Mind, Brain, and Culture.- Interviewing: An Insider’s Insight into Learning.- Mind and Brain in Social and Personal Development.- Phases of Social–Emotional Development from Birth to School Age.- Adolescent Narrative Thought: Developmental and Neurological Evidence in Support of a Central Social Structure.- Disentangling the Complexity of Social Giftedness: Mind, Brain, Development, and Education.- Mind, Brain, and Education in Socioeconomic Context.- Multiple Pathways to Bullying: Tailoring Educational Practices to Variations in Students’ Temperament and Brain Function.- The Intentional Personal Development of Mind and Brain Through Education.- Conclusion.- Development and Its Relation to Mind, Brain, and Education: Continuing the Work of Robbie Case.