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The Cradle of Culture and What Children Know About Writing and Numbers Before Being (Hardcover)
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The Cradle of Culture and What Children Know About Writing and Numbers Before Being (Hardcover)
Series: Developing Mind Series
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This book provides a thrilling description of preliterate
children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it
illustrates well the many ways in which cultural artifacts
influence the mind and vice versa. Remarkably, children treat
writing and numerals as distinct even before they have received any
formal training on the topic, and well before they learn how to use
writing to represent messages and numerals to represent quantities.
In this revolutionary new book, Liliana Tolchinsky argues that
preliterate children's experiences with writing and numerals play
an essential and previously unsuspected role in children's
subsequent development. In this view, learning notations, such as
writing is not just a matter of acquiring new instruments for
communicating existing knowledge. Rather, there is a continual
interaction between children's understanding of the features of a
notational system and their understanding of the corresponding
domain of knowledge. The acquisition of an alphabetic writing
system transforms children's view of language, and the acquisition
of a formal system of enumeration transforms children's
understanding of numbers.
Written in an engaging narrative style, and richly illustrated
with historical examples, case studies, and charming descriptions
of children's behavior, this book is aimed not only at cognitive
scientists, but also at educators, parents, and anyone interested
in how children develop in a cultural context.
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