Table of Contents
List of Figures IX
List of Tables XI
List of Contributors XII
Acknowledgments XIII
Foreword XV Jerome Bruner
1 Constructivist to the Core: An Introduction to the Volume 1 Janet Wilde Astington
Part I: Meaning Making, Literacy, and Culture 15
2 The Sociability of Meaning: Olson’s Interpretive Community 17 Carol Fleisher Feldman
3 Making up my Mind: Learning the Culture of Olson and OISE 29 Penelope G. Vinden
4 Literacy as Symbolic Space 43 Jens Brockmeier
5 Cognition and the Lexicon in the Environment of Texts 62 Rita Watson
6 Rhetorical and Aesthetic Form: Poetry as Textual Art 80 Joan Peskin
7 Building on the Oral Tradition: How Story Composition and Comprehension Develop 98 Anne McKeough
8 From Action to Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing 115 Gordon Wells
Part II: Representation, Language, and Theory of Mind 141
9 Minds in the (re)making: Imitation and the Dialectic of Representation 143 Philip David Zelazo
10 Content and the Representation of Belief and Desire 165 Robin N. Campbell
11 Lying as Doing Deceptive Things with Words: A Speech Act Theoretical Perspective 177 Kang Lee
12 Internal and External Notions of Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective 197 Deepthi Kamawar and Bruce D. Homer
13 RUM, PUM, and the Perspectival Relativity of Sortals 212 Josef Perner
14 Mind, Memory, and Metacognition: The Role of Memory Span in Children’s Developing Understanding of the Mind 233 Thomas Keenan
15 Nonverbal Theory of Mind: Is it Important, is it Implicit, is it Simulation, is it Relevant to Autism? 250 Ted Ruffman
16 Language and Metalanguage in Children’s Understanding of Mind 267 Janet Wilde Astington
Afterword 285 Angela Hildyard and Nancy Torrance
Name index 289
Subject index 296
