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Book

The gardener and the carpenter : what the new science of child development tells us about the relationship between parents and children

Call Number

  • 155.4 G6599 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Physical Description

x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

"Alison Gopnik, a leading developmental psychologist, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective"--

Contents

  • Introduction: The parent paradoxes
  • Against parenting
  • The evolution of childhood
  • The evolution of love
  • Learning through looking
  • Learning through listening
  • The work of play
  • Growing up
  • The future and the past : children and technology
  • The value of children.

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