Table of Contents:
  • How can we think about young childrenʹs thinking?
  • Theories of cognitive development : learning to think and thinking to learn
  • The social, cultural, and emotional contexts of thinking and understanding
  • The developing brain
  • Knowing about the mind : theory of mind, self-regulation, and metacognition
  • Observing, describing, and documenting childrenʹs thinking and understanding
  • Language, communication, and thought
  • Knowing about the world : the development of childrenʹs concepts
  • Young childrenʹs visual thinking
  • Approaches to developing young childrenʹs thinking and understanding