This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom.

The purpose of this essay is to illustrate how the phenomenon of early childhood autism may cast light on issues that are central to our Understanding Of Normal Child Development - Issues Such As The Emotional origins of social experience ...

This book is concerned with both.; The central claim and organizing principle of the book is that, by the end of the second year of life, children have differentiated two core theories of how things happen.

Although the developmental and adult literatures on causal understanding appear at first glance to have little in common, in fact this appearance is illusory, and the idea of two theories helps to bring the two literatures in contact with ...

Presents research on the topic of young children's naive biology, examining such theoretical issues as processes, conditions and mechanisms in conceptual development using the development of biological understanding as the target case.

Presents research on the topic of young children's naive biology, examining such theoretical issues as processes, conditions and mechanisms in conceptual development using the development of biological understanding as the target case.

Provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity develops through childhood and adolescence.

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience.