How Children Develop Social Understanding

Book Details

This book provides a critical review of research into how children come to understand the social world, an area often known as children's "theories of mind".

Takes an integrated approach to the development of children's social understanding
Brings out the connections between mental state understanding and children's understanding of language, social skills, morality and emotions. Sets research within a historical and theoretical context
Contributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly in its discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its Wittgensteinian focus on the role of language.

Authors Jeremy (Simon Fraser University) Carpendale, Charlie (Lancaster University) Lewis
ISBN13 9781405105507
ISBN10 140510550X
Pages 328
Published 2006
Fecha de publicación 08/05/2006
Language German, French