The Development of political understanding
Subtitle: a new perspective
By: Helen Haste, Judith Torney-Purta, editors
Contributors: Haste, Helen; Torney-Purta, Judith, 1937-
Series: New directions for child development -- no. 56; New directions for child development -- no. 56
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1992
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Child development; Political science; Youth -- Attitudes; Cognition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Cognitive representations of the political system in adolescents : the continuum from pre-novice to expert / Judith Torney-Purta; value: Lay social theory : the relation between political, social, and moral understanding / Helen Haste; value: Political tolerance : how adolescents deal with dissenting groups / Patricia G. Avery; value: The personal and the political in reasoning and action / Fayneese Miller; value: Childhood origins of beliefs about institutional authority / Nicholas Emler; value: Ethnic identity and political consciousness in different social orders / Martín Sánchez Jankowski; value: Young adults' understanding of political issues : a social-ecological analysis / Judith Van Hoorn, Paula J. LeVeck