How Children Develop Social Understanding (Understanding Children's Worlds)

This book provides a critical review of research into how childrencome to understand the social world, an area often known aschildren's "theories of mind". Takes an integrated approach to the development of children'ssocial understandingBrings out the connections between mental state understandingand children's understanding of language, social skills, moralityand emotions.Sets research within a historical and theoretical contextContributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly inits discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its Wittgensteinianfocus on the role of language.