The Gardener and the Carpenter (Gopnik Alison); Vintage books, 2017

Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call ‘parenting’ is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the huge industry surrounding it have transformed childcare into obsessive, controlling, and goal-orientated labour intended to create a particular kind of child, and therefore a particular kind of adult.

Drawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative, and to be very different both from their parents and from each other. The variability and flexibility of childhood lets them innovate, create, and survive in an unpredictable world. ‘Parenting’ won't make children learn – but caring parents let children learn by creating a secure, loving environment.

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, the pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parenting is profoundly wrong – it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for children and their parents too.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781784704537
Автор(ы)	Gopnik Alison
Вес	0.41
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2017
Жанр	педагогика
Издатель	Vintage books
Издательство	Vintage books
Кол-во страниц	304
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	304
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая