Children's Minds - Margaret Donaldson

This book by Margaret Donaldson should be compulsory reading for people who work with young children, and, come to that, for parents. It gives not only an easily accessible overview of Piagetian theory of child development, but in the same go demolishes many of the main tenets of said theory. Scottish psychologist Donaldson worked at Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget's lab early on in her carreer, and uses her familiarity with his theory of cognitive development to modify and rethink the idea that young children are extremely limited in their capability to think logically. She ... more