Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory

• Publisher:   Harvard University Press
• Number Of Pages:   330
• Publication Date:   2007-02-15
• ISBN-10 / ASIN:   0674023358
• ISBN-13 / EAN:   9780674023352

Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. She argues that children be seen not as scientists but as members of a community of minds, striving not only to make sense, but also to share meanings with others.

A child is always part of a social world, yet the child's experience is private. So, Nelson argues, we must study children in the context of the relationships, interactive language, and culture of their everyday lives.

Nelson draws philosophically from pragmatism and phenomenology, and empirically from a range of developmental research. Skeptical of work that focuses on presumed innate abilities and the close fit of child and adult forms of cognition, her dynamic framework takes into account whole systems developing over time, presenting a coherent account of social, cognitive, and linguistic development in the first five years of life.

Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a slow, gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become. Original, deeply scholarly, and trenchant, Young Minds in Social Worlds will inspire a new generation of developmental psychologists.

Katherine Nelson currently one of the major thinkers of her generation in child developmental psychology has given us one of the most intellectually mature statements of the major assumptions for understanding the psychological development of the child. Using her bio-socio-cultural framework together with her ong experience in clinical work with children from birth to age five Nelson provides the reader with an interdisciplinary framework which will become the foundation for her field of child development.

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