附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and indexes.
What Children Know and We Have Already Forgotten About Writing and Numerals -- What Philosophers Say About Representational Means That May Help Us to Understand What Makes Writing and Numerals so Special -- What Historians Say About the Origin and History of Writing and Numerals -- What Children Know About Writing Before Being Formally Taught to Write -- What Children Know About Numerals Before Being Formally Taught and Immediately Afterward -- What Children Know About the Relations Between Writing and Number Notation -- The Effect of Writing on Children and Grown-ups Once It Has Been Learned -- Closing Reflections on Notational Systems, Boomerangs, and Circles.
摘要:This book provides a description of pre-literate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa.
