Children's Minds (Flamingo) ebook

by Margaret Donaldson

Margaret Donaldson Schools and Teaching English

Children’s Minds book. Margaret Donaldson's seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought.

Children’s Minds book.

Children's Minds, by Margaret Donaldson. Published by Fontana/

Children's Minds, by Margaret Donaldson. Published by Fontana/. Collins: Glasgow, 1978. Most of us as teachers have been worried about Piaget's. Teaching purposeful reading to aboriginal children.

Home Browse Books Book details, Children's Minds. Developmental psychologist Margaret Donaldson shows that much of the intellectual framework on which we base our teaching is misleading. By Margaret Donaldson. We both underestimate the astonishing rational powers of young children and ignore the major stumbling block that children face when starting school.

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Margaret Caldwell Donaldson (born 1926) is a former Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of. .She is the author of A Study of Children's Thinking and Children's Minds.

Margaret Caldwell Donaldson (born 1926) is a former Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. She was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where she continued as a teacher after graduating. Jerome Bruner has described Donaldson's Children's Minds as "One of the most powerful, most wisely balanced and best informed books on the development of the child's mind to have appeared in twenty years.

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Margaret Donaldson's seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought.

Margaret Donaldson’s seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought

Margaret Donaldson’s seminal work on child development, first published in 1978, has become a classic inquiry into the nature of human thought.

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Donaldson's book will stand for many years as the sterling example of a clear argument promoting learning language through a combined Chomsky/Piagetian perspective. Even though she does not present a thoroughly multi-cultural vision of her thrust, she nonetheless educates the reader not only about the history of relevant literacy research but also about how to apply these theories in a classroom.

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Innadril

This is a very easily read book putting forward key arguments against the theories of Piaget and Chomsky and proposing action steps to make more children succeed in todays' school environment (she sees rankings at school and the resulting feeling of being a failure as the key demotivating factor leading to children stopping development). Her main criticism of Piaget is that he is drawing his conclusion from experiments that are ill-fitted for children. First, she challenges the postulate of "egocentrism" in the ages below 7. She proves by sharing experiments of her own and her research fellows that children who failed in Piaget's "mountain experiment" (the task to describe 3 differently coloured mountains from a doll's rather than one's own perspective), suceeded in her "policemen experiment", where the child is asked to hide from a policeman requiring it to take the view of the policeman to find the right hiding position. Her argument is that children are very well capable of seeing the POV of other people as long as this is relevant to them. While children below the age of 7 know very well the situation of having to hide in order to avoid punishment, they cannot identify with a doll's view of 3 mountains. The same way she proves that the capability to reason deductively ( a skill Piaget denies for children below 7) does exist in children but can only be shown in experiments that reflect the fact that children do have their own interpretation of the experimenters question, intention as well as the meaning of the situation based on their individual history. She continues with experiments proving that making sense of situations comes BEFORE language understanding that Chomsky's assumption of a LAD has no ground. And she finishes with applying her findings in her vision on how more children could be successful in our school system.