Young minds in social worlds : experience, meaning, and memory / Katherine Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Katherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Child psychology--Social aspects.

Cognition in children.

Human information processing in children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780674266223

0674266226

9780674041400

0674041402

OCLC:

432695074