Collaborative Cognition: Children Negotiating Ways of Knowing (Advances in Discourse Processes)
by David J. Bearison, Director of the PH D Program in Developmental Psychology and Professor of Developmental Psychology and Health Psychology at the Graduate School and University Center David J Bearison, Bruce Dorval, Gess LeBlanc, Andrea Sadow, Daniela Plesa
Category: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS

Using the interpersonal event as the unit of analysis, the authors examine how children interactively co-construct knowledge and ways of knowing in social contexts. An illustration of the idea that thinking is as much interactive as self-reflective--one that supports the cognitive developmental theories of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky--this important study delves into the social origins of thought and the inherently discursive nature of thinking itself.