The cradle of culture and what children know about writing and numbers before being taught / Liliana Tolchinsky.

By:

Tolchinsky Landsmann, Liliana

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Developing mind seriesPublication details: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 256 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1410607194
9781410607195
0805838430
9780805838435
0805844848
9780805844849
1282322079
9781282322073
9786612322075
6612322071

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cradle of culture and what children know about writing and numbers before being taught.DDC classification:

302.2/244 22

LOC classification:

LB1139.W7 T65 2003eb

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Contents:

What Children Know and We Have Already Forgotten About Writing and Numerals -- What Philosophers Say About Representational Means That May Help Us to Understand What Makes Writing and Numerals so Special -- What Historians Say About the Origin and History of Writing and Numerals -- What Children Know About Writing Before Being Formally Taught to Write -- What Children Know About Numerals Before Being Formally Taught and Immediately Afterward -- What Children Know About the Relations Between Writing and Number Notation -- The Effect of Writing on Children and Grown-ups Once It Has Been Learned -- Closing Reflections on Notational Systems, Boomerangs, and Circles.

Summary: This book provides a description of pre-literate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and indexes.

This book provides a description of pre-literate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa.