Minds in the Making Essays in Honour of David

Written by some of the world's leading academics and professionals in the field, this collection of essays brings together two complementary views on child development - the role of society and the role of cognitive growth.

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.

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

xi

List of Contributors

xii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Foreword

xv

Jerome Bruner

Constructivist to the Core: An Introduction to the Volume

1

(14)

Janet Wilde Astington

Part I: Meaning Making, Literacy, and Culture

15

(126)

The Sociability of Meaning: Olson's Interpretive Community

17

(12)

Carol Fleisher Feldman

Making up my Mind: Learning the Culture of Olson and OISE

29

(14)

Penelope G. Vinden

Literacy as Symbolic Space

43

(19)

Jens Brockmeier

Cognition and the Lexicon in the Environment of Texts

62

(18)

Rita Watson

Rhetorical and Aesthetic Form: Poetry as Textual Art

80

(18)

Joan Peskin

Building on the Oral Tradition: How Story Composition and Comprehension Develop

98

(17)

Anne McKeough

From Action to Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing

115

(26)

Gordon Wells

Part II: Representation, Language, and Theory of Mind

141

(144)

Minds in the (re)making: Imitation and the Dialectic of Representation

143

(22)

Philip David Zelazo

Content and the Representation of Belief and Desire

165

(12)

Robin N. Campbell

Lying as Doing Deceptive Things with Words: A Speech Act Theoretical Perspective

177

(20)

Kang Lee

Internal and External Notions of Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective

197

(15)

Deepthi Kamawar

Bruce D. Homer

RUM, PUM, and the Perspectival Relativity of Sortals

212

(21)

Josef Perner

Mind, Memory, and Metacognition: The Role of Memory Span in Children's Developing Understanding of the Mind

233

(17)

Thomas Keenan

Nonverbal Theory of Mind: Is it Important, is it Implicit, is it Simulation, is it Relevant to Autism?

250

(17)

Ted Ruffman

Language and Metalanguage in Children's Understanding of Mind

267

(18)

Janet Wilde Astington

Afterword

285

(4)

Angela Hildyard

Nancy Torrance

Name index

289

(7)

Subject index

296

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Minds in the Making Essays in Honour of David R. Olson

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