The study of early cognitive development has emphasized the way in which young children act like scientists, testing and revising theories about the physical, biological, and psychological world. Evidence of this early understanding of the natural order has led researchers to reconsider children's thinking about magical, religious, or otherwise supernatural orders. The present volume offers reviews of new lines of research on children's thinking that stretch beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. More than being "little scientists," children are here considered as "little magicians," "little metaphysicians," "little theologians" and "little story tellers" or "dramatists," imagining other-worldly possibilities.
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"The real contribution of the volume is introducing the notion that children's ideas about fantasy, magic, religion, and science are interrelated in important ways." APA Review of Books
"...this is an important book..." Canadian Child Psychiatry Review
"This is good science. And it is interesting." Imagination, Cognition and Personality
"...this is an important book..." Canadian Child Psychiatry Review
"This is good science. And it is interesting." Imagination, Cognition and Personality
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The study of early cognitive development has emphasized they way in which young children act like scientists, testing and revising theories about the physical, biological, and psychological world. Evidence of this early understanding of the natural order has led researchers to reconsider children's thinking about magical, religious, or otherwise supernatural orders. The present volume offers reviews of new lines of research on children's thinking that stretches beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. More than being "little scientists", children are here considered as "little magicians", "little metaphysicians", "little theologians" and "little story tellers" or "dramatists", imagining other-worldly possibilities.
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Although the word magic is common in both scholarly and lay discourse, the variety of things to which it refers is far-reaching, ranging from a social institution characteristic of traditional societies, to sleight-of-hand or parlor tricks, to belief in unconventional phenomena such as UFOs and ESP, to sloppy thinking or false beliefs, and even to a state of romance, wonder, or the mysterious. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Although the word magic is common in both scholarly and lay discourse, the variety of things to which it refers is far-reaching, ranging from a social institution characteristic of traditional societies, to sleight-of-hand or parlor tricks, to belief in unconventional phenomena such as UFOs and ESP, to sloppy thinking or false beliefs, and even to a state of romance, wonder, or the mysterious. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Peter Rabbit, Cambridge University Press, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Oxford University Press, Harvard University Press, United States, University of Chicago Press, Santa Claus, Martin Luther, San Francisco, University of California Press, Journal of Research, Prometheus Books, Cognitive Science, Iowa City, Kegan Paul, University of Iowa Press, Academic Press, Christian Platonism, New Delhi, Psychological Science, Random House, Science Teaching, Princeton University Press New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Child Development by A.Christine Harris on 10 pages
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on page 368, page 389, and page 402
- Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development by James W. Stigler on page 33, page 211, and page 330
- The Path of Compassion: Writing on Socially Engaged Buddhism by Kenneth Kraft on page 300, page 302, and page 303
- Francis Bacon: The New Organon (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Francis Bacon on page 388, page 390, and page 402
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- Descartes' Baby: How The Science Of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human by Paul Bloom in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion by Susan Ridgely Bales in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality by Robert C. Fuller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter by Elizabeth E. Heilman on page 71, and page 72
- Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter (Pedagogy and Popular Culture) by Elizabeth E. Heilman on page 71
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