The Mind on Paper: Reading, Consciousness and Rationality

ISBN-13: 9781107162891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 280 str.

David R. Olson

Opis

Shows why reading and writing are essential to developing a consciousness of language that, in turn, lies at the core of rationality.

Recenzje

'This is a wonderful book … with fresh insights on every page. It should be of interest to school and university educators, to literacy scholars, to psychologists and to philosophers.' Ian Winchester, Interchange

Spis treści

Preface; Part I. Introduction: Reading, Writing and the Mind; 1. Awakening: reading and consciousness; Part II. Theories of the Relation between Writing and Mind: 2. Inventing writing: the history of writing and the ontogeny of writing; 3. Dewey and the New Pragmatists: reading, writing and mind; 4. Vygotsky and the Vygotskians; 5. The cognitive science of metarepresentation; Part III. Reading and the Invention of Language about Language: 6. Phonemes and the alphabet; 7. The discovery of words and thinking about words; 8. Sentences and logic; 9. Prose and rational argument; 10. The testing of rationality and the rationality of testing; Part IV. The Implications and Uses of Metarepresentational Language: 11. The psychology and pedagogy of reading; 12. The psychology and pedagogy of rationality; Part V. Conclusions: 13. Reading, consciousness and rationality; References; Author index; Subject index.