Parenting Behaviour and Children's Cognitive Development

ISBN-13: 9780863774027 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 148 str.

Sara Meadows

Opis

The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting-place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues. On the one hand there are theories which argue that the impetus of development is within the child and is largely unaffected by his or her experience of social interaction; on the other are the commonsense experience of parents and educators and the body of neo-Vygotskian theory, which would see the child's development as profoundly affected by social interaction or even constituted by it. The purpose of this book is to examine theories and evidence carefully in order to assess the causal links between parent behaviour and children's cognitive development.

Spis treści

Introduction. Theoretical Perspectives: Cognitive Development as Primarily Endogenous. Theoretical Perspectives: Cognitive Development as Largely Exogenous. Parent-child Interaction as a Source of Cognitive Development: Empirical Studies. Is the Apparent Effect of Scaffolding an Epiphenomenon? Parents and Children with Scaffolding Problems. Concluding Remarks.

O autorze

Sara Meadows