Understanding feelings : the early stages / Judy Dunn -- Taking roles / Paul Light -- Some benefits of egocentrism / George Butterworth -- The transactional self / Jerome Bruner -- The origins of inference / Margaret Donaldson -- The early emergence of planning skills in children / Judy S. Deloache and Ann L. Brown -- Thought from language : the linguistic construction of cognitive representations / Carol Fleisher Feldman -- Social representations of gender / Barbara Lloyd -- Growing into rules / Helen Haste
"The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1987, Making Sense reflects the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather than seeing the child as working in isolation, the authors of this collection take the view that 'making sense' involves social interaction and problem-solving. They particularly emphasize the role of language; its study both reveals the child's grasp of the frames of meaning in a particular culture, and demonstrates the subtleties of concept development and role-taking."
