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THE GARDENER AND THE CARPENTER

WHAT THE NEW SCIENCE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT TELLS US ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDR
GOPNIK, ALISON

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Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call parenting is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the huge industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-orientated labour intended to create a particular kind of child, and therefore a particular kind of adult. Dra wing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that althoug h caring for...[Read more]

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DetailsTHE BODLEY HEAD
2016
318 Pages
Format: Otros
ISBN: 9781847921611
Language: INGLÉSCategory: Pedagogy

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