Imagining the Impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rosengren, Karl S. / Johnson, Carl N., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The study of early cognitive development has emphasized the way in which young children act like scientists, testing and revising theories about the physical, biological, and psychological world. Evidence of this early understanding of the natural order has led researchers to reconsider children's thinking about magical, religious, or otherwise supernatural orders. The present volume offers reviews of new lines of research on children's thinking that stretch beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. More than being "ong>littleong> scientists," children are here considered as "ong>littleong> magicians," "ong>littleong> metaphysicians," "ong>littleong> theologians" and "ong>littleong> story tellers" or "dramatists," imagining other-worldly possibilities.