The Development of Young Children's Social-Cognitive Skills

ISBN-13: 9780863773716 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995

M. Forrester;Forrester Micha

Opis

Understanding how young children begin to make sense out of the social world has become a major concern within developmental psychology. Over the last 25 years research in this area has raised a number of questions which mirror the confluence of interests from cognitive-developmental and social-developmental psychology. The aims of this book are to consider critically the major themes and findings within this growing social-cognitive developmental research, and to present a new theoretical framework for investigating children's social cognitive skills.

Recenzje

'The strength of this book is its good coverage and critical evaluations of various theoretical positions. Forrester raises many interesting points.' - Marjorie Taylor in Contemporary Psychology, 1994

'"...provides an up-to-date and concise theoretical overview and will be of particular interest to those in developmental psychology and education.' - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1993

'The overall line of argument in the first two parts is timely, wide-ranging and interesting.' - A.J. Wootton (University of York) in Journal of Child Language, 1993

Spis treści

Social-Cognitive Development. Individualistic Social-Cognitive Development. Interactionist Social-Cognitive Development. Conversational Contexts: The Site for Emerging Social-Cognitive Skills. A Framework for Investigating Social-Cognitive Skills. Illustrating the Framework: Overhearing and the Development of Social-Cognitive Skills. Overhearing as "Attention Focusing." Overhearing as Conversation Monitoring. Investigating and Understanding Children's Social-Cognitive Skills: A Synopsis.

O autorze

Forrester, Michael A.