Product Description: This collection examines the many internal and external factors affecting cognitive processes. Editor Shulamith Kreitler brings together a wide range of international contributors to produce an outstanding assessment of recent research in the field...read more

Product Description: Jerome Bruner is one of the best-known and most influential psychologists of the twentieth century. He was one of the key figures in the so called 'cognitive revolution' that today dominates psychology around the world - but it is in the field of education that his influence has been especially felt...read more

Argues that educators should help students piece together authentic narratives about themselves and about society, and not to focus so much on teaching students to process information

Product Description: El niño en fase de crecimiento empieza a comprender el mundo, a atribuir significados a su experiencia y a convertirse en un individuo social competente. La elaboración del sentido refleja la manera en que los psicólogos del desarrollo contemplan estos procesos cada vez más en situaciones sociales naturalmente...read more

Product Description: The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1978, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations...read more

Offers a psychological approach to literature, examines the connection between language and reality, and discusses education and intellectual development

A detailed look at how children learn to use language covers games and play, linguistic reference, the development of requests, and the transmission of culture

Product Description: Red Dust on the Green Leaves is the first in a series of books about of two boys growing to manhood in Liberia. One follows the white man's ways; the other immerses himself in his indigenous culture. It is about the clash of the modern and traditional...read more