Conceptual change in childhood

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Conceptual change in childhood

Susan Carey

(The MIT Press series in learning, development, and conceptual change)

MIT Press, 1987, c1985

  • : pbk

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A Bradford book

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"A Bradford book"

"First MIT Press paperback edition, 1987"--T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. [217]-222

Includes index

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Description

Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan Carey develops an alternative to these two ways of thinking about childhood cognition, putting forth the idea of conceptual change and its relation to the development of knowledge systems. Conceptual Change in Childhood is a case study of children's acquisition of biological knowledge between ages 4-10. Drawing on evidence from a variety of sources, Carey analyzes the ways that knowledge is restructured during this development, comparing them to the ways that knowledge is restructured by an adult learner, and to the ways that conceptual frameworks have shifted in the history of science.

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  • NCID
    BA11552057
  • ISBN
    • 0262530732
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, Mass.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 226 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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