The development of children's thinking: its social and communicative foundations/
Jeremy Carpendale, Charlie Lewis and Ulrich Müller
- Los Angeles: Sage, 2018.
- xiv, 396 p. illustrations ; 24 cm
1. Introduction. what is human thinking and how does it develop? -- 2. The Role of biology in psychological development -- 3. Constructivist approaches to children's thinking -- 4. Sociocultural approaches to children's thinking -- 5. The development of communication and social understanding in infancy -- 6. Theories of communication and social understanding in infancy -- 7. Animal communication and human language -- 8. Language in human communication and thinking -- 9. How children learn the meaning of words -- 10. How children come to control their behaviour -- 11. Understanding the social world -- 12. Social interaction, language and social understanding -- 13. Moral reasoning and action -- 14. Recent issues in moral development.