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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459068203321

Titolo

Making sense : the child's construction of the world / / edited by Jerome Bruner and Helen Haste

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011, c1987

ISBN

1-136-82335-2

1-283-24195-1

9786613241955

0-203-83058-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Altri autori (Persone)

BrunerJerome S (Jerome Seymour)

Weinreich-HasteHelen

Disciplina

155.4

Soggetti

Child psychology

Social interaction in children

Problem solving in children

Children - Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1987 by Methuen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Understanding feelings: The early stages; 2 Taking roles; 3 Some benefits of egocentrism; 4 The transactional self; 5 The Origins of Inference; 6 The early emergence of planning skills in children; 7 Thought from language: The linguistic construction of cognitive representations; 8 Social representations of gender; 9 Growing into rules; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1987, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather than seeing the child as working in isolation, the authors of this collection take the view that 'making sense' involves social interaction and problem-solving. They



particularly emphasize the role of language; its study both reveals the child's grasp of the frames of meaning in a parti