Product Description: A memoir and anthology and a unique chronicle of success surprise, comedy and tragedy. Three generations of the author s family and friends will move you from laughter to tears with their creatively linked stories. Follow the Olson family from Minnesota to the wild coast of Southeast Alaska, all the way to the South China Sea and back again...read more

Product Description: Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address the role of technologies in social stability and change in traditional and modern societies...read more

Product Description: David Olson offers a theoretical account of the relationship between the minds of learners and the institutional structure of the school. Why do efforts at reforming schools routinely fail? It is because schools are by and large successful in achieving their two primary responsibilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: 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. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This work provides a review of advances in the understanding of human development and of their implications for education theory and practice. Child-centred education has been a dominant theme throughout this century, but just what such child-centred education entails has shifted significantly with advances in our understanding of children and their development. This volume sets out three potentially revolutionary changes in the understanding of education and human development. The first is a new understanding of how psychology relates to pedagogy. The second insight is the possibility that education is in fact what makes culture possible, and the critical relation between culture and education is examined. The third insight is a new conception of just what it is to know, to learn and to understand, and the role of the traditional subject matter disciplines in the advancement of human understanding. Each of the contributors have drawn out the theoretical and practical implications of their new understanding in order to provide a volume that bridges theory and practice in the fields of human development and education.

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In this study of the social and psychological implications of literacy, sixteen distinguished scholars provide a sustained and detailed examination of the relations between orality and literacy, the traditions based on them, the functions served by them, and the psychological and linguistic processes recruited and enhanced by them. By shedding the romantic view that literacy is the road to rationality and modernity, the volume provides a more functional view of literacy. The articles place new emphasis on the relationship between speaking and writing and highlight the different ways in which people exploit the particular resources of speech and writing for special purposes, such as building communities, creating records, and specializing genres, such as prose fiction, enhancing private study and meditation, and enhancing the specialization and organization of knowledge. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A unique collection of empirical reports and conceptual analysis by leading researchers examines the fundamental change that occurs in children's cognition between the ages of two and six.

Product Description: Literacy is an important concern of contemporary societies. This book offers a comprehensive survey of recent efforts to understand the nature of written language and its role in cognition and in social and intellectual life. The authors represent a wide range of disciplines - cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, education, history and philosophy - and address a wide range of questions...read more

Essays examine how culture, social interaction, and human relations affect the development of language and thought in children