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  • Making Sense

    What It Means to Understand

    by David R. Olson ...
    Understanding, as Descartes, Locke and Kant all insisted, is the primary 'faculty' of the mind; yet our modern sciences have been slow to advance a clear and testable account of what it means to understand, of children's acquisition of this concept and, in particular, how children come to ascribe understanding to themselves and others. By drawing together developmental and philosophical theories, ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Developing Theories of Intention

    Social Understanding and Self-control

    Edited by Philip David Zelazo, Janet Wilde Astington, David R. Olson ...
    The chapters collected in this volume represent the "state-of-the-art" of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Jerome Bruner

    by David R. Olson, Professor Richard Bailey ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought
    Jerome Bruner is the vanguard of “the cognitive revolution” in psychology and the predominant spokesman for the role of culture and education in the making of the modern mind. In this text Olson encourages the reader to think about children as Bruner did, not as bundles of traits and dispositions to be diagnosed and remediated, but as thoughtful, keenly interested, agentive persons who are willing ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Cognitive Development

    The Child's Acquisition of Diagonality

    by David R. Olson ...
    When this book was first published, David Olson was examining the developing representation and use of diagonals in the context of much larger questions, questions also explored by Vygotsky, Cassirer, Gombrich, and Bruner. These include such issues as conceptual development, conceptual change, and stage-like transitions in one's knowledge and belief. Some of these problems remain at virtually the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Mind on Paper

    Reading, Consciousness and Rationality

    by David R. Olson ...
    Although the importance of literacy is widely acknowledged in society and remains at the top of the political agenda, writing has been slow to establish a place in the cognitive sciences. Olson argues that to understand the cognitive implications of literacy, it is necessary to see reading and writing as providing access to and consciousness of aspects of language, such as phonemes, words and ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society

    Implications of the Work of Jack Goody

    Edited by David R. Olson, Michael Cole ...
    Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address the role of technologies in social stability and change in traditional and modern societies. In this ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Literacy, Narrative and Culture

    Edited by Jens Brockmeier, Min Wang, David R. Olson ...
    An important contribution to the multi-disciplinary study of literacy, narrative and culture, this work argues that literacy is perhaps best described as an ensemble of socially and historically embedded activities of cultural practices. It suggests viewing written language, producing and distributing, deciphering and interpreting signs, are closely related to other cultural practices such as ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Series series Jean Nicod Lectures
    A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How Languages are Learned 4th edition

    by Lightbown, Patsy M., Spada, Nina ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
    Teachers are often told that new teaching methods and materials are 'based on the latest research'. But what does this mean in practice? This book introduces you to some of the language acquisition research that will help you not just to evaluate existing materials, but also to adapt and use them in a way that fits what we currently understand about how languages are learned. ... Read more

    $51.59 USD

  • The New Science of the Mind

    From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology

    by Mark Rowlands ...
    An investigation into the conceptual foundations of a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate all cognition "in the head."There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How Languages Are Learned 5th Edition

    by Patsy M Lightbown, Spada ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers
    Now in its fifth edition, the award-winning How Languages are Learned has established itself as an indispensable introduction to research in language acquisition and its relationship with classroom practice. Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada have worked for over four decades in second language research and education. They are highly respected worldwide for making theory and research about language ... Read more

    $51.59 USD

  • Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis

    by Peter Fonagy ...
    A BestsellerAttachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought."The book every student, colleague, and even rival theoretician has been waiting for. With characteristic wit, philosophical ... Read more

    $20.99 USD