Marvelous Minds: The discovery of what children know - Rilegato

Siegal, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0199207054 ISBN 13: 9780199207053

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2008

Riassunto

Children have a spontaneous interest in the world around them - whether the workings of the earth, sun, and stars, the nature of number, time and space, or the functioning of the body. Yet what is there in children's minds that is the key to their knowledge? This book examines what children can and do know, based on extensive studies from a range of different cultures. Topics include 'theory of mind' - the knowledge that others may have beliefs that differ from one's own and from reality, astronomy and geography, food, health and hygiene, processes of life and death, number and arithmetic, as well as autism and brain research on language and attention.

Since what children say and do may not really reflect the depth of their knowledge of the world around them, our goal should be to discover new methods to accurately test children's knowledge, instead of trying to understand the range of failing answers they might give on the many tests that have been devised to determine what they know. Contrary to earlier studies, it is now established that in many areas considerable knowledge is within the grasp of young children with benefits for their later development. For example, although certain number concepts - in particular, fractions, proportions, and infinity - can be difficult to grasp, children generally do not need to undergo a fundamental change in their thinking and reasoning to master these. What the author of this book proposes is that children often display a capacity for understanding that we simply overlook.

Written by a renowned developmental psychologist, this book presents a fascinating exploration of children minds, and how we can better understand them.
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Recensione:

...a useful and enlightening publication... (The Psychologist)

Siegal provides interesting slants that give evidence to back-up his assertions that children are potentially much more knowledgeable about their surroundings than had hitherto been supposed...a useful and enlightening publication that adds to the literature in the area of the development of children's knowledge and understanding. (The Psychologist)

L'autore:

Michael Siegal holds the Marie Curie Chair in Psychology at the University of Trieste, Italy, and is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has also held appointments at universities in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Professor Siegal has a long history of involvement in research on the development of language and reasoning in typically and atypically developing children, particularly deaf children and children with autism. His work extends to studies of scientific and mathematical understanding in adults following brain damage. Professor Siegal's research has led to more than 150 publications. He is an associate editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and has been a member of a number of editorial boards including Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Science, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199207054
• ISBN 13: 9780199207053
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 272