Trusting What You''re Told - How Children Learn From Others

Discusses how children obtain and analyze information from their outside world and how it affects their own thinking patterns, from elementary school vegetarians to how children perceive death and the afterlife.

About the author

Paul L. Harris is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University.

Summary

If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round—never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You’re Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others.

Product details

• Authors: Paul L Harris, Paul L. Harris, Harris Paul L.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2015
• EAN: 9780674503830
• ISBN: 978-0-674-50383-0
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Entwicklungspsychologie, Kognitive Psychologie, EDUCATION / Elementary, Psychology, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Child & developmental psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Philosophy & theory of education, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Age groups: children, Philosophy and theory of education, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary