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The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
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The Acquisition of Symbolic Skills (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)
Series: III Human Factors, 22
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This book is a selection of papers from a conference which took
place at the University of Keele in July 1982. The conference was
an extraordinarily enjoyable one, and we would like to take this
opportunity of thanking all participants for helping to make it so.
The conference was intended to allow scholars working on different
aspects of symbolic behaviour to compare findings, to look for
common ground, and to identify differences between the various
areas. We hope that it was successful in these aims: the assiduous
reader may judge for himself. Several themes emerged during the
course of the conference. Some of these were: 1. There is a
distinction to be made between those symbol systems which attempt,
more or less directly, to represent a state of affairs in the world
(e. g. language, drawing, map and navigational skill) and those in
which the representational function is complemented, if not
overshadowed, by properties of the symbol system itself, and the
systematic inter-relations that symbols can have to one another (e.
g. music, mathematics). The distinction is not absolute, for the
nature of all symbolic skills is, in part, a function of the
structure of the symbolic system employed. Nonetheless, this
distinction helps us to understand some common acquisition
difficulties, such as that experienced in mathematics, where mental
manipulation of symbols can go awry if a child assumes too close a
correspondence between mathematical symbols and the world they
represent. 2.
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