The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education

Author : Lucas Payne Butler (University of Maryland, College Park)

Hardback

Published : Thursday 30 January 2020

ISBN : 9781108428910

Price : €99.45

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30 Jan 2020

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Questioning others is one of the best methods that children use to learn about the world. In this volume, leading experts explore critical issues in the development of questioning to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of how questions play a pivotal role in child development and education.

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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