What Is This Childhood?
Toole, Carol / Hoisington, Eva This book explores the consciousness of the young child through language development, often in their own words. The child's early utterances reveal a unity of word and experience and of experience and meaning. Children live more fully in perception than conception. Yet, speech as it unfolds eventually leads the child to abstraction, self-consciousness, and critical thinking.This journey into childhood will deepen the quality of our attention a...