{"product_id":"minds-in-the-making-isbn-9780631218050","title":"Minds in the Making","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.  List of Figures. \u003cp\u003eList of Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword (Jerome Bruner).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Constructivist To The Core: An Introduction To The Volume (Janet Wilde Astington).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Meaning Making, Literacy, and Culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Sociability of Meaning: Olson's Interpretive Community (Carol Fleisher Feldman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Making Up My Mind: Learning The Culture of Olson and OISE (Penelope G. Vinden).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Literacy As Symbolic Space (Jens Brockmeier).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Cognition and The Lexicon In The Environment of Texts (Rita Watson).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Rhetorical and Aesthetic Form: Poetry As Textual Art (Joan Peskin).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Building On The Oral Tradition: How Story Composition and Comprehension Develop (Anne Mckeough).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. From Action To Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing (Gordon Wells).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Representation, Language, and Theory of Mind.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Minds In The (Re)Making: Imitation and The Dialectic of Representation (Philip David Zelazo).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Content and The Representation of Belief and Desire (Robin N. Campbell).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Lying As Doing Deceptive Things With Words: A Speech Act Theoretical Perspective (Kang Lee).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Internal and External Notions of Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective (Deepthi Kamawar \u0026amp; Bruce D. Homer).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. RUM, PUM, and The Perspectival Relativity of Sortals (Josef Perner).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Mind, Memory, and Metacognition: The Role of Memory Span In Children's Developing Understanding of The Mind (Thomas Keenan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Nonverbal Theory of Mind: is it Important, is it Implicit, is it Simulation, is it Relevant to Autism (Ted Ruffman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Language and Metalanguage In Children's Understanding of Mind (Janet Wilde Astington).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword (Angela Hildyard \u0026amp; Nancy Torrance).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJane Wilde Astington\u003c\/b\u003e is at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has published widely and is a former editor of the journal, \u003ci\u003eCognitive Development\u003c\/i\u003e.  This collection of essays presents two complementary perspectives on the development of children's minds; one considering the role of society in the construction of the mind, the second showing how the mind constructs itself during the course of cognitive growth.  \u003cp\u003eInspired by the lifetime's work of David Olson, one of the world's most distinguished educational psychologists, \u003ci\u003eMinds in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e reviews the literature supporting these two positions, proposes new directions and provides a comprehensive overview of the field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith contributions by some of the leading experts in the field, this carefully crafted collection of essays has been rigorously edited by Janet Wilde Astington to ensure that they are thoroughly accessible and cohesive. \u003ci\u003eMinds in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e will be welcomed as an inspiring teaching volume and as an important contribution to research into both cultural and cognitive theories of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989630304485,"sku":"NP9780631218050","price":147.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631218050.jpg?v=1761784878","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/minds-in-the-making-isbn-9780631218050","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}