Table of Contents
Part 1 How can we think about young children’s thinking?: concepts and contexts 1. The Infant’s Creative Vitality, In Projects of Self-Discovery and Shared Meaning: How They Anticipate School, and Make It Fruitful
Colwyn Trevarthen and Jonathan Delafield-Butt 2. 'I wonder why our dog has been so naughty?': Thinking differently from the perspective of play
Elizabeth Wood 3. How Play Creates the Zone of Proximal Development
Pentti Hakkarainen and Milda Brėdikytė 4. Developing Implicit Social Cognition in Early Childhood: Methods, Phenomena, Prospects
Dario Cvencek and Andrew N. Meltzoff 5. The organisation of memory and thought: Where the boundaries of now meet the boundaries of me
Suzanne Flannery Quinn 6. The development of children’s causal explanations
Cristine H. Legare and Jennifer M. Clegg 7. Development of the Use of Agents as Explanations for Events
Chelsea A. Cornelius and Jacqueline D. Woolley 8.The clinical interview: The child as partner in conversations versus the child as object of research
Niklas Pramling and Roger Säljö 9. Young Children’s Narrative Abilities: Links to Syntax Comprehension and Reading
Monique Senechal and Rosemary Lever 10. Cross-language syntactic priming in bilingual children
Alina Konradt Part 2 Knowing about the brain and knowing about the mind 11. The Development of Children’s Understanding of Social Interaction
Jeremy Carpendale and Charlie Lewis 12. Executive Function and School Readiness: Identifying Multiple Pathways for School Success
Rachel Razza and Kimberley Raymond 13. Children’s Private Speech
Danielle L. Mead and Adam Winsler 14. The development of theory of mind and its role in social development in early childhood
Vickii B. Jenvey and Emma Newton 15 Mind-mindedness: Forms, features and implications for infant-toddler pedagogy
Sheila Degotardi 16. Metacognitive Experiences – Taking Account of Feelings in Early Years Education
Shirley Larkin 17. Making Learning Visible: The role of language in the development of metacognition and self-regulation in young children
David Whitebread, Deborah Pino-Pasternak and Penny Coltman 18. Language variation within the autism spectrum: causes and consequences
Courtenay Frazier Norbury and Alison Sparks 19. Embodied Cognition in Children: Developing Mental Representations for Action
Carl Gabbard 20. Sensitive Periods
John T. Bruer Part 3 Making sense of the world 21. Babies, bees, boats and beyond: Children’s working theories in the early years
Sally Peters and Keryn Davis 22. Developing an understanding of elementary astronomy – is the truth in the eye of the beholder?
Triin Liin 23. Shared understanding among pre-schoolers
Annica Löfdahl and Maria Hjalmarsson 24. Pretend play and its integrative role in young children’s thinking
Sue Rogers 25. Narrative Thinking: Implications for Black Children’s Social Cognition
Stephanie M. Curenton and Nicole Gardner-Neblett 26. Recognising ‘The Sacred Spark of Wonder’ – Scribbling and Related Talk as Evidence of How Young Children’s Thinking May be Identified
Elizabeth Coates and Andrew Coates 27. Musical thinking in the early years
Beatriz Ilari 28. Developing Young Children’s Mathematical Thinking and Understanding
Douglas H. Clements and Julie Sarama 29. Young Children Thinking and Learning With and About Digital Technologies
Christine Stephen 30. Technological design and children’s perspectives
Cecilia Wallerstedt, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson and Niklas Pramling Part 4 Documenting and developing children’s thinking 31. Protecting and Enhancing Children's Learning Power: A New Perspective on Early Childhood Development and Education
Guy Claxton 32. Thinking within the wellbeing wheel
Rosemary Roberts 33. How young children think and learn through exploring schemas
Cath Arnold 34 The role of sustained shared thinking, play and metacognition in young children’s learning
Iram Siraj and Rehana Asani 35. Possibility Thinking: from what is to what might be
Anna Craft 36. Whose activity is it?: The role of child- and adult-initiated activity in young children’s creative thinking
Sue Robson 37. Young Children Drawing: providing a supportive environment
Kathy Ring 38. Already equal and able to speak: Practising philosophical enquiry with young children
Joanna Haynes 39. What preschool is like: Children's interviews, photographs, and picture selections from two different contexts
Darlene DeMarie, Jenna McLain, Laura Mockensturm and Colleen Stevenson