Conceptual Change In Childhood - Brossura

Carey, Susan

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ISBN 10: 0262530732 ISBN 13: 9780262530736

Casa editrice: MIT Press, 1987

Riassunto

Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan Carey develops an alternative to these two ways of thinking about childhood cognition, putting forth the idea of conceptual change and its relation to the development of knowledge systems. Conceptual Change in Childhood is a case study of children's acquisition of biological knowledge between ages 4-10. Drawing on evidence from a variety of sources, Carey analyzes the ways that knowledge is restructured during this development, comparing them to the ways that knowledge is restructured by an adult learner, and to the ways that conceptual frameworks have shifted in the history of science.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Susan Carey is the Henry A. Morss Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is the first woman to receive the 2009 David E. Rumelhart Prize, given annually since 2001 for significant contributions to the theoretical foundation of human cognition.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262530732
• ISBN 13: 9780262530736
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile