Children's Understanding of Death:From Biological to Religious Conceptions

ISBN 10: 0521194598 / ISBN 13: 9780521194594

Editore: Cambridge UP, 2011

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• Titolo: Children's Understanding of Death:From Biological to Religious Conceptions
• Editore: Cambridge UP
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521194598
• ISBN 13: 9780521194594
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Brand New

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Riassunto

This book comprehensively examines children's ideas about death, both biological and religious.

Informazioni sugli autori

Victoria Talwar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. She is a graduate of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and Queen's University, Canada. She specializes in the social development of young children. She has published numerous papers in various journals including Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Law and Human Behavior and the International Journal of Behavioral Development.

Paul L. Harris is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University. He is a graduate of Sussex and Oxford Universities and has previously taught at the University of Lancaster, the Free University of Amsterdam, the London School of Economics, and Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. A developmental psychologist with interests in the development of cognition, emotion and imagination, Harris is currently studying how young children learn about history, science and religion on the basis of what trusted informants tell them, rather than from firsthand observation. He is the author of The Work of the Imagination (2000).

Michael Schleifer is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He is a graduate of Oxford University (Philosophy) and McGill University (Psychology). His past appointments include being Professor of Ethics at McGill University and Clinical Psychologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital Department of Psychiatry. He has published more than a hundred articles in philosophical, psychological and educational journals and has edited works on identity, cooperation, the development of judgment, morality and emotion. His latest books are Talking about Feelings and Values with Children (2006) and How to Have a Dialogue of Mutual Respect with your Teenager (2007).