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Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

09.04.2007

Verlag

WILEY

Seitenzahl

290

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/15,2/1,6 cm

Gewicht

424 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-4952-5

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

09.04.2007

Verlag

WILEY

Seitenzahl

290

Maße (L/B/H)

22,9/15,2/1,6 cm

Gewicht

424 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-4952-5

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Preface vii

    Acknowledgments xi

    1 The Benefits of Youth 1

    Rushing through Childhood 3

    Views of Development 5

    A Darwinian Perspective 14

    I Come Not to Praise Immaturity 20

    2 The Youngest Species 21

    A Brief Look at Human Evolution 23

    The Evolution of Childhood 36

    Timing is Everything 44

    The Youngest Species 52

    3 The Slow Rate of Growing Up 55

    The Gamble of Delayed Development 56

    Big Brains, Social Complexity, and Slow Development 58

    Cooperating and Competing 62

    Family Matters 63

    Slow Growth and Brain Plasticity 65

    Developmental Plasticity and Evolution 83

    When Slow is Fast Enough 84

    4 Adapting to the Niche of Childhood 87

    The Benefits of Limitations 89

    See Things My Way 93

    Learning Language 101

    How Do Adults View Children's Immature Thinking? 106

    Adapting to Childhood 109

    5 The Advantages of Thinking You're Better than You Are 111

    The Development of Metacognition - Knowing What We Know 113

    Some Benefits of Less-Than-Perfect Metacognition 128

    When We Deal with Children 135

    Know Thyself, But Not Too Well 136

    6 Play: The Royal Road through Childhood 139

    What is Play? 142

    The Adaptive Value of Play 144

    Children Playing, Children Learning 147

    Play it Again, Kid 161

    7 The Most Educable of Animals 163

    The Myth of "Earlier is Better" 169

    Prenatal Learning 172

    Early (Postnatal) Learning 176

    Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Education 182

    Stress in the Schoolhouse 189

    Old Brain, New Curriculum 197

    8 The Changing Face of Childhood 199

    Pushing Children through Childhood 201

    A Brief History of Childhood 204

    The Costs of Ignoring Immaturity: The Well-being of America's Children 211

    The Independent Human Juvenile: A New View of Childhood? 216

    Racing to Adulthood, Prolonging Adolescence 218

    Epilogue: Homo Juvenalis 221

    Revisiting Childhood 222

    Visiting Adulthood 223

    Notes 227

    References 239

    Index 267