Imagining the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children - Couverture souple

 
9780521665872: Imagining the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children
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ISBN 10 : 0521665876 ISBN 13 : 9780521665872
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This volume, first published in 2000, is about the development of human thinking that stretches beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. Various research initiatives emerged in the decade prior to publication exploring such matters as children's thinking about imaginary beings, magic and the supernatural. The purpose of this book is to capture something of the larger spirit of these efforts. In many ways, this new work offers a counterpoint to research on the development of children's domain-specific knowledge about the ordinary nature of things that has suggested that children become increasingly scientific and rational over the course of development. In acquiring an intuitive understanding of the physical, biological or psychological domains, even young children recognize that there are constraints on what can happen. However, once such constraints are acknowledged, children are in a position to think about the violation of those very same constraints - to contemplate the impossible.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume, first published in 2000, is about the development of human thinking that stretches beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. Various research initiatives emerged in the decade prior to publication exploring such matters as children's thinking about imaginary beings, magic and the supernatural. The purpose of this book is to capture something of the larger spirit of these efforts. In many ways, this new work offers a counterpoint to research on the development of children's domain-specific knowledge about the ordinary nature of things that has suggested that children become increasingly scientific and rational over the course of development. In acquiring an intuitive understanding of the physical, biological or psychological domains, even young children recognize that there are constraints on what can happen. However, once such constraints are acknowledged, children are in a position to think about the violation of those very same constraints - to contemplate the impossible.

Revue de presse

"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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521665876
ISBN 13 
9780521665872
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
438
Éditeur
Rosengren Karl S.
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9780521593229: Imagining the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children

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ISBN 10 :  0521593220 ISBN 13 :  9780521593229
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2000
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