Children's Saving: A Study in the Development of Economic Behaviour - Couverture rigide

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Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J.S; Webley, Paul

 
9780863772337: Children's Saving: A Study in the Development of Economic Behaviour
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ISBN 10 : 0863772331 ISBN 13 : 9780863772337
Editeur : Psychology Press Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

This book presents an alternative approach to the study of the emergence of economic awareness during childhood: a new developmental economic psychology. In the past, attempts to study the emergence of children's economic consciousness have failed to take account of the practical nature of the "economic" in the history of western cultures. Economic socialization has been seen as the acquisition of abstract knowledge about the institutions of adult economic culture. The child has been seen as a spectator, acquiring knowledge of that culture, but never really part of it.
However, economic actions, in essence, are directed not towards the attainment of knowledge but rather towards the practical solution of problems of resource allocation imposed by constraint. Children, just like adults, are faced with practical problems of resource allocation. Their response to these problems may be different from those of adults but no less "economic" for that.
This realization forms the heart of this book. In it children are seen as both inhabitants of their own "playground" economic subculture and actors in the wider economic world of adults, solving, or attempting to solve, practical economic problems. In order to highlight this "child centered" approach the authors studied the way children tackle the particular problems posed by limitations of income. How do children learn, a) the relationship between choices available in the present and the future, b) to spread their limited financial resources over time into the future and c) about the strategies, such as banking, that allow them to protect those resources from threats and temptations. In short, how do children learn to save?
This volume goes some way to answering these and related questions and in so doing sets up an alternative framework for the study of the emergence of economic awareness.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book presents an alternative approach to the study of the emergence of economic awareness during childhood: a new developmental economic psychology. In the past, attempts to study the emergence of children's economic consciousness have failed to take account of the practical nature of the "economic" in the history of western cultures. Economic socialization has been seen as the acquisition of abstract knowledge about the institutions of adult economic culture. The child has been seen as a spectator, acquiring knowledge of that culture, but never really part of it.
However, economic actions, in essence, are directed not towards the attainment of knowledge but rather towards the practical solution of problems of resource allocation imposed by constraint. Children, just like adults, are faced with practical problems of resource allocation. Their response to these problems may be different from those of adults but no less "economic" for that.
This realization forms the heart of this book. In it children are seen as both inhabitants of their own "playground" economic subculture and actors in the wider economic world of adults, solving, or attempting to solve, practical economic problems. In order to highlight this "child centered" approach the authors studied the way children tackle the particular problems posed by limitations of income. How do children learn, a) the relationship between choices available in the present and the future, b) to spread their limited financial resources over time into the future and c) about the strategies, such as banking, that allow them to protect those resources from threats and temptations. In short, how do children learn to save?
This volume goes some way to answering these and related questions and in so doing sets up an alternative framework for the study of the emergence of economic awareness.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Psychology Press Ltd
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0863772331
ISBN 13 
9780863772337
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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