De Kleine Filosoof : Wat Het Kinderbrein Ons Vertelt Over Waarheid, Liefde En De Zin Van Het Leven (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
The science behind why fantasy (pretend) play is so crucial for young children, and the cognitive skills being deployed/developed when kids do it. Map this onto Relational Frame Theory, some Verbal Behavior, and some Vygotsky and you've got a good thing going. If you are adept at reading across the mentalisms, and inserting behavioral persoectoves on this, it is fabulous to read alongside Novak & Pelaez' text, Child and Adolescent Development: A Behavioral Systems Approach, and Novak's chapter in McHugh & Stewart's new book, The Self and Perspective Taking: Contributions and Applications from Modern Behavioral Science. Familiarity with RFT will help with reading this and Gopnik's other co-authored book, The Scientist in the Crib, through behavior-colored glasses. Causal relations, temporal relations, rule-governed behavior, theory of mind and counterfactual thinking (imagining, pretending) - it's all there. I can't wait till the RFT folk or Novak and Pelaez' students start researching in this vein. Then we will surely understand how to teach the component skills os pretend play to individuals with developmental disabilities. Very lovely, very moving, highly accessible read. Gopnik is a beautiful writer, and this is a joy all the way through. This review is based on reading the first 50 or so pages and skimming over the rest. It's a very worthwhile book and I like the subject matter in that it delves into what babies really understand and what we can learn from them. What I didn't like was how heavy on the philosophy it was (i.e., counterfactuals, causal theories, etc.), and how it explained numerous studies that have been done. It felt like required reading for a college class (sure enough, the author is a college professor). This made the book kind of dry and hard to get into for me, but like I said, I think it's still a good-quality book. Maybe I'll try to read it again in a few years when I have more patience and time.
What do You think about De Kleine Filosoof : Wat Het Kinderbrein Ons Vertelt Over Waarheid, Liefde En De Zin Van Het Leven (2010)?
A really insightful book. I will re-read the chapters on attachment once I am a mom.
—anamaria_2210
Different perspective and some interesting metaphors as well as data
—sara
Because their minds are stranger than we think.
—knunn
a neurosciency look at a baby's experience
—LittleNita
