Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others

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Harvard University Press, 29 may 2012 - 266 páginas
If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round—never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You’re Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Early Learning from Testimony
8
2 Childrens Questions
22
3 Learning from a Demonstration
45
4 Moroccan Birds and Twisted Tubes
63
5 Trusting Those You Know?
78
6 Consensus and Dissent
98
7 Moral Judgment and Testimony
113
9 Death and the Afterlife
152
10 Magic and Miracles
173
11 Going Native
194
Notes
213
References
222
Acknowledgments
242
Index
245
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8 Knowing What Is Real
132

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Harris Paul L. : Paul L. Harris is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University.

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