Minds in the Making: Essays in Honour of David R. Olson

by Janet Wilde Astington (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631218067
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/11/2000
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Jane Wilde Astington is at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has published widely and is a former editor of the journal, Cognitive Development.

Table of Contents

List of Figures IX

List of Tables XI

List of Contributors XII

Acknowledgments XIII

Foreword XV
Jerome Bruner

1 Constructivist to the Core: An Introduction to the Volume 1
Janet Wilde Astington

Part I: Meaning Making, Literacy, and Culture 15

2 The Sociability of Meaning: Olson’s Interpretive Community 17
Carol Fleisher Feldman

3 Making up my Mind: Learning the Culture of Olson and OISE 29
Penelope G. Vinden

4 Literacy as Symbolic Space 43
Jens Brockmeier

5 Cognition and the Lexicon in the Environment of Texts 62
Rita Watson

6 Rhetorical and Aesthetic Form: Poetry as Textual Art 80
Joan Peskin

7 Building on the Oral Tradition: How Story Composition and Comprehension Develop 98
Anne McKeough

8 From Action to Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing 115
Gordon Wells

Part II: Representation, Language, and Theory of Mind 141

9 Minds in the (re)making: Imitation and the Dialectic of Representation 143
Philip David Zelazo

10 Content and the Representation of Belief and Desire 165
Robin N. Campbell

11 Lying as Doing Deceptive Things with Words: A Speech Act Theoretical Perspective 177
Kang Lee

12 Internal and External Notions of Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective 197
Deepthi Kamawar and Bruce D. Homer

13 RUM, PUM, and the Perspectival Relativity of Sortals 212
Josef Perner

14 Mind, Memory, and Metacognition: The Role of Memory Span in Children’s Developing Understanding of the Mind 233
Thomas Keenan

15 Nonverbal Theory of Mind: Is it Important, is it Implicit, is it Simulation, is it Relevant to Autism? 250
Ted Ruffman

16 Language and Metalanguage in Children’s Understanding of Mind 267
Janet Wilde Astington

Afterword 285
Angela Hildyard and Nancy Torrance

Name index 289

Subject index 296