"In this volume, the world's foremost cognitive psychologist turns his attention to the development of the child's awareness of his own action. The book reports the results of experimentation conducted at the world-famed Center of Genetic Epistemology in Geneva, to distinguish between the child's ability to perform the actions required by a simple task and the child's understanding of the rationale behind the action. Children, ranging in age between four and adolescence, were asked to perform such tasks as walking on all fours, playing tiddlywinks, building a ramp for a toy car. They were then asked to explain how they had performed the task and in some cases to instruct the interviewer. Their answers show a number of surprising inaccuracies in the child's ability to grasp the nature of what he had done. Taking a broad view of his results, Piaget shows that they reveal several stages in the slow and gradual development of the child's conceptualization of his actions. In analyzing each stage, Piaget argues that the child's concept of his own action cannot be considered a simple matter of "enlightenment," but must be actively reconstructed from his experience. This view has always been at the core of Piaget's work, and it is here extended into an interesting new area of the child's mental world.-- Book Jacket."

"The grasp of consciousness (La prise de conscience, engl. ). Action and concept in the young child"
"La prise de conscience : Avec la collaboration de A. Blanchet u.a"
"The grasp of consciousness : action and concept in the young child : Alex Blanchet ... et al"
"The grasp of conciousness : action & concept in the young child"@en
"La prise de conscience"
"Toma de conciencia por jean piaget"
"La toma de conciencia"@es
"La toma de conciencia"
"La Toma de conciencia"
"The grasp of consciousness : action and concept in the young child"
"The grasp of consciousness : action and concept in the young child"@en
"A tomada de consciência"
"A tomada de consciência"@pt
"La Prise de conscience"
"Grasp of consciousness : action and concept in the young child"@en
"The grasp of consciousness"
"La presa di coscienza"@it
"La presa di coscienza"
"The Grasp of consciousness : action and concept in the young child"
"THE GRASP OF CONSCIOUSNESS"
"The grasp of consiousness : action and concept in the young child"
"The grasp of consciousness : action and concept in the young child : Translated by Susan Wedgwood"
"Tomada de consciência"@pt
"The grasp of consciousness action and concept in the young child"@en
"The grasp of consciousnes : action and concept in the young child"
"Grasp of consciousness: Action and concept in the young child"