Chapters of this book were originally presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society held from June 11-13, 1998, in Chicago, Ill. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Language, literacy, and thought : forming a partnership / Ellin Kofsky Scholnick -- Developing a socially shared symbolic system / Katherine Nelson and Lea Kessler Shaw -- A developmental-functionalist approach to mental state talk / Nancy Budwig -- Relational language and relational thought / Dedre Gentner and Jeffrey Loewenstein -- From thought to hand : structured and unstructured communication outside of conventional language / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- What writing does to the mind / David R. Olson -- Symbolic communication in mathematics and science : co-constituting inscription and thought / Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble -- Social relational knowing in writing development / Colette Daiute -- Symbolic communication and cognitive development : conclusions and prospects / Eric Amsel and James P. Byrnes.
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