1st Edition

Making Sense (Routledge Revivals) The Child's Construction of the World

Edited By Jerome S. Bruner, Helen Haste Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1978, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather than seeing the child as working in isolation, the authors of this collection take the view... Read more
1. Understanding Feelings: The Early Stages  2. Taking Roles  3. Some Benefits of Egocentrism  4. The Transactional Self  5. The Origins of Inference  6. The Early Emergence of Planning Skills in Children  7. Thought from Language: The Linguistic Construction of Cognitive Representations

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Jerome S. Bruner, Helen Haste