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1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read

   Culture, Cognition and Pedagogy

   Edited by Kathy Hall, Usha Goswami, Colin Harrison, Sue Ellis, Janet Soler

   Series: Routledge Psychology in Education

   Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read brings together different disciplinary perspectives and studies on reading for all those who seek to extend and enrich the current practice, research and policy debates. The breadth of knowledge that underpins pedagogy is a central theme and the...

   Published March 8th 2010 by Routledge
2. Cognitive Development

   The Learning Brain

   By Usha Goswami

   Cognitive Development: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the bestselling Cognition in Children. This full-color textbook has been re-written from the perspective of brain science and shows how new discoveries in cognitive neuroscience force us to reconsider...

   Published December 20th 2007 by Psychology Press
3. Cognitive Development

   Critical Concepts in Psychology

   Edited by Usha Goswami

   Series: Critical Concepts in Psychology

   Cognitive Development is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Psychology. Edited by Usha Goswami, Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge, this four-volume collection brings together the essential scholarship covering cognitive...

   Published December 13th 2006 by Psychology Press
4. Cognition In Children

   By Usha Goswami

   Series: Developmental Psychology: A Modular Course

   This textbook aims to provide a selective, but representative, review of work in cognitive development, grouped around themes that are familiar from textbooks of adult cognition. The book focuses on the question of what develops, rather than on why it develops. The findings of a given experimental...

   Published March 4th 1998 by Psychology Press
5. Analogical Reasoning in Children

   By Usha Goswami

   Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology

   Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, involved in classification, learning, problem-solving and creative thinking, and should be a basic building block of cognitive development. However, for a long time researchers have believed that children are incapable of reasoning by analogy....

   Published August 23rd 1993 by Psychology Press
6. Phonological Skills and Learning to Read

   By Peter Bryant, Usha Goswami

   Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology

   This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom. It aims to develop a theory about why early phonological skills are crucial in learning to read, and shows how phonological knowledge about rhymes...

   Published December 24th 1990 by Psychology Press