Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index.
Modern metaphors of the developing child -- Perspectives on meaning -- Being an infant, becoming a child -- Toddling toward childhood -- Experiential semantics of first words -- Entering the symbolic world -- Finding oneself in time -- Entering a community of minds -- The study of developing young minds.
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Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become.
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