Reflective Thinking in Educational Settings
Subtitle: a Cultural Framework
Contributors: Confalonieri, Emanuela; Marchetti, Antonella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781139910354; 9781139922098; 9781139198745; 9781139898614; 9781107025738
Subjects: Developmental; Cognition and culture; PSYCHOLOGY; Reference; Critical thinking; Thought and thinking; General; Cognitive learning; Reflective learning; Essays; EDUCATION; Organizations & Institutions
Description: This volume examines the role that culture plays in the acquisition of cognitive, linguistic, and social skills.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Reflective Thinking in Educational Settings; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Do Metarepresentation and Narratives Play a Role in Reflective Thinking?; Part I Representations and Metarepresentations; 1 Social Development and the Development of Social Representations: Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Introduction; The First Half of the Story; Problem Solving or Solved Problems; Interpreting Differences as Developmental; Failing to Ask the Right Question; Ignoring Quantitative Differences; A Possible Other Half of the Story.; title: The Development of Social Gender IdentityEconomic Life; What about Income Inequalities?; Social Development as Interpretive Reproduction in Peer Cultures; Intelligence as a Social Construction; As a Way to Continue the Dialogue; 2 Learning from Multimedia Artifacts: The Role of Metacognition; Introduction; Which Models of Metacognition Are Assumed in Multimedia Learning?; What Aspects Are Mostly Taken into Account within the Research Framework?; What Role Has Metacognition in Relation to Multimedia?; Metacognition Promoted by Multimedia.; title: Multimedia as a Tool to Promote the Link between Metacognition and LearningMetacognition and Multimedia Together Can Promote Effective Learning; Conclusions; 3 Theory of Mind in Typical and Atypical Developmental Settings: Some Considerations from a Contextual Perspective; There Is No Place like ... "Family." Is This True?; Flavia Lecciso; Theory of Mind and Schooling; Giulia Cavalli; Pretense and Children's Literature; Davide Massaro; Theory of Mind, Irony, and Relational Contexts; Annalisa Valle; Language and Theory of Mind: Deafness as a Benchmark; Serena Petrocchi.; title: Theory of Mind, Morality, and Pervasive Developmental DisordersBarbara Lucchini; Theory of Mind in Maltreated Children; Eleonora Di Terlizzi; New Frontiers for Theory of Mind Research; Ilaria Castelli; 4 The Use of Metacognitive Language in Story Retelling; Theory of Mind Achievements for Social Understanding and Narrative Comprehension; The Contribution of Storybook Experiences to Theory of Mind Growth in Children; The Contribution of Storybook Experiences to Narrative Competence in Children; Method; Participants; Procedures; Measures; Scoring; Results; Discussion.; title: Implications for Educators and Parents5 Language Access and Theory of Mind Reasoning; Introduction; Experiment 1; Method; Participants; Procedure; Results; Discussion; Experiment 2; Method; Participants; Procedure; Materials; Results and Discussion; General Discussion; 6 Commentary: Aspects and Perspectives of Research into Metarepresentative Thought; Part II Narratives; 7 Narrative, Culture, and Psychology; 8 Schooling and Literacy in Mind and Society; Literacy and Mind; Literacy and Schooling; Literacy and Society.