ABSTRACT
It would seem that in a volume dedicated to the topic of children’s strategies, the various contributors would all deal with the same basic issues and mean the same thing when they wrote of strategies. In a very broad sense, we think this is true. Each chapter herein deals with children’s goal-directed behavior and cognitive processes executed in quest of those goals. The goal-directed nature of behavior is the cornerstone of strategies. But once we try to get beyond this most rudimentary of definitions, the consensus fades.
