Gardener and the Carpenter - Couverture souple

Gopnik, Alison

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1250132258 ISBN 13 : 9781250132253

Editeur : Picador Paper, 2017

Synopsis

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and shatters the myth of "good parenting".

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call "parenting" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion-dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a particular kind of adult.

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, the pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong--it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too.

Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative--and to be very different both from their parents and from each other.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of The Philosophical Baby and The Scientist in the Crib.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador Paper
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250132258
• ISBN 13: 9781250132253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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