| Description |
xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-266) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The benefits of youth -- Rushing through childhood -- Views of development -- A Darwinian perspective -- I come not to praise immaturity -- 2. The youngest species -- A brief look at human evolution -- The evolution of childhood -- Timing is everything - The youngest species -- 3. The slow rate of growing up -- The gamble of delayed development -- Big brains, social complexity, and slow development -- Cooperating and competing -- Family matters -- Slow growth and brain plasticity -- Developmental plasticity and evolution -- When slow is fast enough -- 4. Adapting to the niche of childhood -- The benefits of limitations -- See things my way -- Learning language -- How do adults view children's immature thinking? -- Adapting to childhood -- 5. The advantages of thinking you're better than you are -- The development of metacognition - knowing what we know -- Some benefits of less-than-perfect metacognition -- When we deal with children -- Know thyself, but not too well -- |
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6. Play : the royal road through childhood -- What is play? -- The adaptive value of play-- children playing, children learning -- Play it again, kid -- 7. The most educable of animals -- The myth of "Earlier is better" -- Prenatal learning -- Early (postnatal) learning -- Developmentally appropriate practices in early education -- Stress in the schoolhouse -- Old brain, new curriculum -- 8. The changing face of childhood -- Pushing children through childhood -- A brief history of childhood -- The costs of ignoring immaturity : the well-being of America's children -- The independent human juvenile : new view of childhood? -- Racing to adulthood, prolonging adolescence - Epilogue : Homo juvenalis -- Revisiting childhood -- Visiting adulthood -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Children.
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Children. |
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Child development.
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Child development. |
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Children. |
| ISBN |
9781405149525 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781405149518 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1405149515 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1405149523 paperback alkaline paper |
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