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The Work of the Imagination

ISBN: 978-0-631-21886-9

September 2000

Wiley-Blackwell

236 pages

Description
This book demonstrates how children's imagination makes a continuing contribution to their cognitive and emotional development.
About the Author
Paul L. Harris is Professor of Developmental Psychology, Oxford University, and Fellow in Psychology, St. John's College, Oxford. He is the author of Children and Emotion, and co-editor of Developing Theories of Mind, Children's Understanding of Emotion, and Imagining the Impossible: Mgical, Scientific and Religious Thinking in Children.
Features
* Focuses on and brings together key topics in cognitive development in a new and cross-cutting way
* Links pretending and imagination to other aspects of the child's cognitive and emotional development
* The author is one of the world's leading developmental psychologists and an experienced and fluent writer