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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext This collection of essays presents two complementary perspectives on the development of children's minds; one considering the role of society in the construction of the mind, the second showing how the mind constructs itself during the course of cognitive growth. Inspired by the lifetime's work of David Olson, one of the world's most distinguished educational psychologists, Minds in the Making reviews the literature supporting these two positions, proposes new directions and provides a comprehensive overview of the field. With contributions by some of the leading experts in the field, this carefully crafted collection of essays has been rigorously edited by Janet Wilde Astington to ensure that they are thoroughly accessible and cohesive. Minds in the Making will be welcomed as an inspiring teaching volume and as an important contribution to research into both cultural and cognitive theories of mind. Zusammenfassung Theory of mind and literacy are two widely researched and studied areas of cognitive development. In this volume! Janet Wilde-Astington has gathered together a number of well-known experts to write! at an accessible level! reviews of the key areas in both literacy and theory of mind research. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
