Developing thinking and understanding in young children a textbook for early years students - Robson, Sue (New York Routledge, 2006)
How can we think about young children?s thinking? -- Theories of cognitive development : learning to think and thinking to learn -- The social, cultural, and emotional contexts of thinking and understanding -- The developing brain -- Knowing about the mind : theory of mind, self-regulation, and metacognition -- Observing, describing, and documenting children?s thinking and understanding -- Language, communication, and thought -- Knowing about the world : the development of children?s concepts -- Young children?s visual thinking -- Approaches to developing young children?s thinking and understanding.
Keywords: Early childhood education; Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Early childhood); Cognition in children