Research Catalog

Title

Real kids : creating meaning in everyday life / Susan Engel.

Author

Engel, Susan L., 1959-

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

xii, 219 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Decades of work in psychology labs has vastly enhanced our knowledge about how children perceive, think, and reason. But it has also encouraged a distorted view of children, argues psychologist Susan Engel in this book - a view that has affected every parent who has tried to debate with a six-year-old. By focusing on the thinking processes prized by adults, too many experts have rendered children as little adults. What has been lost is what is truly unique and mysterious - the childlike quality of a child's mind." "Engel draws on keen observations and descriptive research to take us into the nearly forgotten, untidy, phantasmagorical world of children's inner lives. She reminds us that children fuse thought and emotion, play and reality; they swing wildly between different ways of interpreting and acting in the world. But just as a gawky child may grow into a beauty, illogical and sometimes maddening childishness can foreshadow great adult ability."--Jacket.

Subject

• Cognition in children
• Cognition
• Children
• Child psychology
• Cognition
• Child
• Psychology, Child
• cognition
• children (people by age group)
• Children
• Child psychology
• Cognition in children
• Kinderen
• Cognitieve processen
• Kognitiv utveckling hos barn
• Barnpsykologi
• Barn

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.

Contents

What we see and what we miss -- A glance backward: what have we learned about children? -- Spheres of reality in childhood -- Toward a more complete understanding of children -- Why this matters, and to whom.

ISBN

• 0674018834
• 9780674018839

LCCN

2005046005

OCLC

• ocm58604514
• 58604514
• SCSB-9506056

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library