Minds in the Making
Essays in Honour of David R. Olson
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-631-21806-7 (ISBN)
Description
Written by some of the world's leading academics and professionals in the field, this collection of essays brings together two complementary views on child development - the role of society and the role of cognitive growth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-21806-7 (9780631218067)
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Person
Jane Wilde Astington is at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has published widely and is a former editor of the journal, Cognitive Development.
Content
List of Figures IX
List of Tables XI
List of Contributors XII
Acknowledgments XIII
Foreword XV
Jerome Bruner
1 Constructivist to the Core: An Introduction to the Volume 1
Janet Wilde Astington
Part I: Meaning Making, Literacy, and Culture 15
2 The Sociability of Meaning: Olson's Interpretive Community 17
Carol Fleisher Feldman
3 Making up my Mind: Learning the Culture of Olson and OISE 29
Penelope G. Vinden
4 Literacy as Symbolic Space 43
Jens Brockmeier
5 Cognition and the Lexicon in the Environment of Texts 62
Rita Watson
6 Rhetorical and Aesthetic Form: Poetry as Textual Art 80
Joan Peskin
7 Building on the Oral Tradition: How Story Composition and Comprehension Develop 98
Anne McKeough
8 From Action to Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing 115
Gordon Wells
Part II: Representation, Language, and Theory of Mind 141
9 Minds in the (re)making: Imitation and the Dialectic of Representation 143
Philip David Zelazo
10 Content and the Representation of Belief and Desire 165
Robin N. Campbell
11 Lying as Doing Deceptive Things with Words: A Speech Act Theoretical Perspective 177
Kang Lee
12 Internal and External Notions of Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective 197
Deepthi Kamawar and Bruce D. Homer
13 RUM, PUM, and the Perspectival Relativity of Sortals 212
Josef Perner
14 Mind, Memory, and Metacognition: The Role of Memory Span in Children's Developing Understanding of the Mind 233
Thomas Keenan
15 Nonverbal Theory of Mind: Is it Important, is it Implicit, is it Simulation, is it Relevant to Autism? 250
Ted Ruffman
16 Language and Metalanguage in Children's Understanding of Mind 267
Janet Wilde Astington
Afterword 285
Angela Hildyard and Nancy Torrance
Name index 289
Subject index 296
List of Tables XI
List of Contributors XII
Acknowledgments XIII
Foreword XV
Jerome Bruner
1 Constructivist to the Core: An Introduction to the Volume 1
Janet Wilde Astington
Part I: Meaning Making, Literacy, and Culture 15
2 The Sociability of Meaning: Olson's Interpretive Community 17
Carol Fleisher Feldman
3 Making up my Mind: Learning the Culture of Olson and OISE 29
Penelope G. Vinden
4 Literacy as Symbolic Space 43
Jens Brockmeier
5 Cognition and the Lexicon in the Environment of Texts 62
Rita Watson
6 Rhetorical and Aesthetic Form: Poetry as Textual Art 80
Joan Peskin
7 Building on the Oral Tradition: How Story Composition and Comprehension Develop 98
Anne McKeough
8 From Action to Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing 115
Gordon Wells
Part II: Representation, Language, and Theory of Mind 141
9 Minds in the (re)making: Imitation and the Dialectic of Representation 143
Philip David Zelazo
10 Content and the Representation of Belief and Desire 165
Robin N. Campbell
11 Lying as Doing Deceptive Things with Words: A Speech Act Theoretical Perspective 177
Kang Lee
12 Internal and External Notions of Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective 197
Deepthi Kamawar and Bruce D. Homer
13 RUM, PUM, and the Perspectival Relativity of Sortals 212
Josef Perner
14 Mind, Memory, and Metacognition: The Role of Memory Span in Children's Developing Understanding of the Mind 233
Thomas Keenan
15 Nonverbal Theory of Mind: Is it Important, is it Implicit, is it Simulation, is it Relevant to Autism? 250
Ted Ruffman
16 Language and Metalanguage in Children's Understanding of Mind 267
Janet Wilde Astington
Afterword 285
Angela Hildyard and Nancy Torrance
Name index 289
Subject index 296