Agency and Cognitive Development by Michael Tomasello
This book argues that children cannot simply learn anything at any age, because their capacities to experience and cognitively represent the world are structured by humans' psychological architecture for agentive decision making and action. Changes in these architectures help to explain why children learn what they do when they do.
Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His research focuses on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and other great apes. His many publications include Primate Cognition (OUP, 1997), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard University Press, 2019), and The Evolution of Agency (MIT Press, 2022).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198896579 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198896573 |
| Title | Agency and Cognitive Development |
| Author | Michael Tomasello |
| Series | Oxford Series In Cognitive Development |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2024-08-29 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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