Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from OthersHarvard 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. |
Índice
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 |
245 | |
8 Knowing What Is Real | 132 |
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Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others Paul L. Harris Vista previa restringida - 2012 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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