The Child as Thinker

Sara Meadows

The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in Childhood

An impressive summary of current work; the book gives an accurate, informed and incisive view across the whole field of children’s cognition. It will be ideal as a teaching text for students.’ – Mark Blades, University of Sheffield

This is one of the best books I have read in this field for a long time. Julian Elliott, University of Sunderland

The Child as Thinker provides both students and researchers with an important review of current research in the development and acquisition of cognition in childhood. In it, Sara Meadows brings together approaches from the broad fields of psychology, anthropology and medicine, and examines their strengths and weaknesses.

As well as describing a wide range of children’s concepts and thinking processes, she includes other aspects usually absent from student texts, including physical and social factors affecting children’s cognition.

Sara Meadows is Lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol.
Front cover illustration: Rembrant, Portrait of “Titus. Reproduced by courtesy of the
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, – Developmental Psychology/Cognitive Psychology