This series has been specially compiled to bring together seminal articles and some new material for use in the Open University's MA in Education, course E820. It will prove invaluable to students in both education and psychology departments at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and for all professionals with an interest in the development of children.
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By Paul Light, Sue Sheldon, Martin Woodhead
January 24, 1991
The popular image, derived from Piaget, of the child as a solitary thinker struggling to construct a personal understanding of the mathematical and logical properties of the physical world has given way in recent years to a view of children's learning and thinking as embedded in social ...
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By Ronnie Carr, Paul Light, Martin Woodhead
January 24, 1991
The final reader in the Child Development in Social Context series shows how the study of child development is inevitably bound up in more ephemeral cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children and in the educational practices that rise from these ideas. Some readings point to the dangers...