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Title: Children's Minds by Margaret Donaldson ISBN: 0-393-95101-4 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.35 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
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Summary: Challenges to the theories of Piaget and Chomsky
Comment: This is a very easily read book putting forward key arguments against the theories of Piaget and Chomsky and proposing action steps to make more children succeed in todays' school environment (she sees rankings at school and the resulting feeling of being a failure as the key demotivating factor leading to children stopping development). Her main criticism of Piaget is that he is drawing his conclusion from experiments that are ill-fitted for children. First, she challenges the postulate of "egocentrism" in the ages below 7. She proves by sharing experiments of her own and her research fellows that children who failed in Piaget's "mountain experiment" (the task to describe 3 differently coloured mountains from a doll's rather than one's own perspective), suceeded in her "policemen experiment", where the child is asked to hide from a policeman requiring it to take the view of the policeman to find the right hiding position. Her argument is that children are very well capable of seeing the POV of other people as long as this is relevant to them. While children below the age of 7 know very well the situation of having to hide in order to avoid punishment, they cannot identify with a doll's view of 3 mountains. The same way she proves that the capability to reason deductively ( a skill Piaget denies for children below 7) does exist in children but can only be shown in experiments that reflect the fact that children do have their own interpretation of the experimenters question, intention as well as the meaning of the situation based on their individual history. She continues with experiments proving that making sense of situations comes BEFORE language understanding that Chomsky's assumption of a LAD has no ground. And she finishes with applying her findings in her vision on how more children could be successful in our school system.
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Title: Social Development by H. Rudolph Schaffer ISBN: 0631185747 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $46.95 |
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Title: Understanding Children's Development (Basic Psychology (Oxford, England).) by Peter K. Smith, Helen Cowie, Mark Blades ISBN: 0631228233 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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Title: The Culture of Education by Jerome Bruner ISBN: 0674179536 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Children's Language and Learning by Judith Wells Lindfors ISBN: 0131319620 Publisher: Pearson Education POD Pub. Date: 15 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $80.80 |
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Title: Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes by L. S. Vygotsky, S. Vygotsky, L. S. Vygotskii, Vera John-Steiner ISBN: 0674576292 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1980 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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