The significance of children and animals
Subtitle: social development and our connections to other species
By: Gene Myers.
Contributors: Myers, Gene
Edition: 2nd, rev. ed.
Series: New directions in the human-animal bond
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781557534293
Subjects: Children and animals; Child development; Child psychology; Human-animal relationships
Other titles: Western Collection.
Description: "Based on Myers's year-long study of two dozen children, child-animal interactions are captured in the children's own words and actions, revealing the importance of a diversity of animals to the child's social development. Providing the first comprehensive framework for understanding a wide range of everyday experiences with animals, the book shows in detail how nonverbal interactions, emotions, pretend play, language, and the social environment contribute to the child's sense of self in relation to animals."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Children and animals. 1998.

Gift of Olin Eugene Myers, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-231) and index.

Gift; Gene Myers; July 2007

Olin Eugene Myers, Jr., WWU faculty member, 1995- ; BS (1982 : Human Ecology) Western Washington University, MA, PhD (1994: Psychology and Human Development) University of Chicago.

Library copy inscribed by author to WWU.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the sense of connection; title: Childhood animality and development: child and animal in culture and theory; title: An ecology of subjects: animals and the child's self; title: The immediate other: animate relating; title: The creature that connects: sharing feelings, words, and minds; title: Pretend play: self as human, self as animal; title: The animal in the cultural context of development.