The Child as Thinker: The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in ChildhoodFirst published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Descriptive studies of childrens cognitive skills and knowledge | 5 |
READING | 6 |
Development in reading processes | 10 |
Learning to read in a literate environment | 15 |
Skills and stages in learning to read | 17 |
The teaching of reading | 21 |
Understanding what you read | 22 |
Developmental changes in knowledge? | 60 |
Summary | 62 |
Memory for events in childhood | 63 |
CHILDRENS REASONING | 67 |
Childrens analogical reasoning | 69 |
CHILDRENS USE OF METAPHORS | 74 |
METACOGNITION | 78 |
TRANSFER | 81 |
Understanding the structure of a text | 24 |
WRITING | 27 |
Maths | 35 |
MEMORY | 49 |
Developmental changes in basic memory capacities? | 50 |
Developmental changes in memory strategies? | 54 |
metamemory? | 57 |
PROBLEMSOLVING | 87 |
CHILDRENS MUSICAL COGNITION | 92 |
CHILDRENS DRAWINGS | 94 |
CHILDRENS SPATIAL COGNITION | 97 |
CHILDRENS USE OF CONCEPTS | 101 |
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The Child as Thinker: The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in Childhood Sara Meadows No preview available - 1993 |
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