Acquisitions

Covers children's perspectives and how children understand other people's perspectives -- visually (with much discussion of drawing), conversationally, and emotionally. Cox states in the introduction, "I have not attempted to give an exhaustive account of the literature in each area; rather, my purpose has been to select some of the most relevant and interesting studies and to discuss these in more detail than would otherwise be possible. Although my background in psychology biases me towards accepting mainly experimental evidence to answer the questions posed, I am also interested in evidence from other traditions and I have drawn on different approaches throughout the book." Also: "... my aim is to focus positively on what children can do, rather than to approach them as inferior beings and evaluate them in a negative way." There you have it.