The Questioning Child
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The Questioning Child

Insights from Psychology and Education

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Questioning Child

Insights from Psychology and Education

About this book

Questioning others is one of the most powerful methods that children use to learn about the world. How does questioning develop? How is it socialized? And how can questioning be leveraged to support learning and education? In this volume, some of the world's leading experts are brought together to explore critical issues in the development of questioning. By collecting interdisciplinary and international perspectives from psychology and education, The Questioning Child presents research from a variety of distinct methodological and theoretical backgrounds. It synthesizes current knowledge on the role of question-asking in cognitive development and charts a path forward for researchers and educators to understand the pivotal function that questioning plays in child development and education.

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Yes, you can access The Questioning Child by Lucas Payne Butler,Samuel Ronfard,Kathleen H. Corriveau in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Developmental Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Contributors
  10. 1 Questions about Questions: Framing the Key Issues
  11. 2 Questions in Development
  12. 3 The Point, the Shrug, and the Question of Clarification
  13. 4 The Quest for Comprehension and Learning: Children’s Questions Drive Both
  14. 5 Children’s Question-Asking across Cultural Communities
  15. 6 The Development of Information-Requesting Gestures in Infancy and Their Role in Shaping Learning Outcomes
  16. 7 Developmental Changes in Question-Asking
  17. 8 Understanding Developmental and Individual Differences in the Process of Inquiry during the Preschool Years
  18. 9 “Why Are There Big Squares and Little Squares?”: How Questions Reveal Children’s Understanding of a Domain
  19. 10 Children’s Questions in Social and Cultural Perspective
  20. 11 Mothers’ Use of Questions and Children’s Learning and Language Development
  21. 12 Teaching and Learning by Questioning
  22. 13 Asking “Why?” and “What If?”: The Influence of Questions on Children’s Inferences
  23. 14 What Makes a Good Question? Towards an Epistemic Classification
  24. 15 The Questioning Child: A Path Forward
  25. Index