How Children Develop Social Understanding

This book provides a critical review of research into how children come tounderstand the social world an area often known as children8217s theoriesof mind. Take... » 

This book provides a critical review of research into how children come tounderstand the social world an area often known as children8217s theoriesof mind. Takes an integrated approach to the development of children8217ssocial understanding Brings out the connections between mental stateunderstanding and children8217s understanding of language social skillsmorality and emotions. Sets research within a historical and theoreticalcontext Contributes unique insights and perspectives particularly in itsdiscussions of Piaget and Vygotsky and in its Wittgensteinian focus on therole of language. «