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Nelson, Katherine J. was born on April 18, 1930 in Minneapolis. Daughter of Sherman E. and Evelyn (Hedin) Johnson.
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Making Sense: The Acquisition of Shared Meaning (Developmental Psychology Series)
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Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory by Nelson, Katherine (2010) Paperback
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Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind
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This book highlights a transition from the study of language and cognition to that of language in cognition. It presents an integrative theory of cognitive development, emphasizing the important role that language plays in taking the two to five year old child to new levels of cognitive operations in memory, forming concepts, categories, processing narratives, and understanding other people's intentions. The author considers biological evolution the source of both language and culture, but she argues that qualitatively different modes of thinking and knowing emerge therefrom.
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(Narratives from the Crib) Author: Katherine Nelson published on (October, 2006)
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This classic psychological case study focuses on one talkative child's emerging ability to use language, her capacity for understanding, for imagining, and for making inferences and solving problems. In wide-ranging essays, scholars offer multifaceted linguistic and psychological analyses of two-year-old Emily's bedtime conversations with her parents and pre-sleep monologues, taped over a fifteen-month period. In a foreword written for this new edition, Emily, now an adult, reflects on the experience of having been a research subject without knowing it.
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Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory
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Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. She argues that children be seen not as scientists but as members of a community of minds, striving not only to make sense, but also to share meanings with others. A child is always part of a social world, yet the child's experience is private. So, Nelson argues, we must study children in the context of the relationships, interactive language, and culture of their everyday lives. Nelson draws philosophically from pragmatism and phenomenology, and empirically from a range of developmental research. Skeptical of work that focuses on presumed innate abilities and the close fit of child and adult forms of cognition, her dynamic framework takes into account whole systems developing over time, presenting a coherent account of social, cognitive, and linguistic development in the first five years of life. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a slow, gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become. Original, deeply scholarly, and trenchant, Young Minds in Social Worlds will inspire a new generation of developmental psychologists.
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(Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory) Author: Katherine Nelson published on (October, 2009)
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Narratives From The Crib: 1st (First) Edition
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Katherine J. Nelson
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Katherine J. Nelson, American psychologist, educator. Postdoctoral fellow Yale University, 1968-1970. Fellow American Psychological Association (president division 7 1998-1999); member Society Research Child Development (governor council 1983-1989, distinguished research award 1999, Stanley Hall award 2008, Eleanor Maccoby Book award 2008).
Education
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1952. Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1968.
Career
Research associate Yale University, New Haven, 1970-1974, assistant professor psychology, 1974-1975, associate professor, 1975-1978. Professor psychology City University of New York, New York City, 1978-1986, distinguished professor psychology Graduate Center, 1986—2000, professor emeritus, since 2001.
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(Narratives from the Crib) Author: Katherine Nelson published on (October, 2006)
(This classic psychological case study focuses on one talk...)
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Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory
( Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology w...)
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Language in Cognitive Development: The Emergence of the Mediated Mind
(This book highlights a transition from the study of langu...)
- Making Sense: The Acquisition of Shared Meaning (Developmental Psychology Series)
- Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory by Nelson, Katherine (2010) Paperback
- (Young Minds in Social Worlds: Experience, Meaning, and Memory) Author: Katherine Nelson published on (October, 2009)
- Narratives From The Crib: 1st (First) Edition
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(Narratives from the Crib) Author: Katherine Nelson published on (October, 2006)
Membership
Fellow American Psychological Association (president division 7 1998-1999). Member Society Research Child Development (governor council 1983-1989, distinguished research award 1999, Stanley Hall award 2008, Eleanor Maccoby Book award 2008).
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Married Richard R. Nelson, September 6, 1952. Children: Margo East., Laura C. Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College.
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