Young Minds in Social Worlds

by Katherine Nelson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674041400
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	609 KB

About the Author

Katherine Nelson is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Table of 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 First Words

6. Entering the Symbolic World

7. Finding Oneself in Time

8. Entering a Community of Minds

9. The Study of Developing Young Minds

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index