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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778179503321

Autore

Nelson Katherine

Titolo

Young minds in social worlds [[electronic resource] ] : experience, meaning, and memory / / Katherine Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-26622-6

0-674-04140-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

155.4

Soggetti

Child psychology

Child psychology - Social aspects

Cognition in children

Human information processing in children

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-299) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Modern Metaphors of the Developing Child -- 2. Perspectives on Meaning -- 3. Being an Infant, Becoming a Child -- 4. Toddling toward Childhood -- 5. Experiential Semantics of FirstWords -- 6. Entering the SymbolicWorld -- 7. Finding Oneself in Time -- 8. Entering a Community of Minds -- 9. The Study of Developing Young Minds -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become.