Minds in the Making

Jane Wilde Astington is at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She has published widely and is a former editor of the journal, Cognitive Development.

• List of Figures IXList of Tables XIList of Contributors XIIAcknowledgments XIIIForeword XVJerome Bruner1 Constructivist to the Core: An Introduction to the Volume 1Janet Wilde AstingtonPart I: Meaning Making, Literacy, and Culture 152 The Sociability of Meaning: Olson’s Interpretive Community 17Carol Fleisher Feldman3 Making up my Mind: Learning the Culture of Olson and OISE 29Penelope G. Vinden4 Literacy as Symbolic Space 43Jens Brockmeier5 Cognition and the Lexicon in the Environment of Texts 62Rita Watson6 Rhetorical and Aesthetic Form: Poetry as Textual Art 80Joan Peskin7 Building on the Oral Tradition: How Story Composition and Comprehension Develop 98Anne McKeough8 From Action to Writing: Modes of Representing and Knowing 115Gordon WellsPart II: Representation, Language, and Theory of Mind 1419 Minds in the (re)making: Imitation and the Dialectic of Representation 143Philip David Zelazo10 Content and the Representation of Belief and Desire 165Robin N. Campbell11 Lying as Doing Deceptive Things with Words: A Speech Act Theoretical Perspective 177Kang Lee12 Internal and External Notions of Metarepresentation: A Developmental Perspective 197Deepthi Kamawar and Bruce D. Homer13 RUM, PUM, and the Perspectival Relativity of Sortals 212Josef Perner14 Mind, Memory, and Metacognition: The Role of Memory Span in Children’s Developing Understanding of the Mind 233Thomas Keenan15 Nonverbal Theory of Mind: Is it Important, is it Implicit, is it Simulation, is it Relevant to Autism? 250Ted Ruffman16 Language and Metalanguage in Children’s Understanding of Mind 267Janet Wilde AstingtonAfterword 285Angela Hildyard and Nancy TorranceName index 289Subject index 296