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Infants' instrumental social interaction with adults

Barbara RogoffJayanthi MistryBarbara RadziszewskaJamie Germond

pp. 323-348

Abstract

The role of social interaction in guiding children's development is receiving increasing attention as an explanation for children's rapid learning (Azmitia, 1988; Newman, Griffin, & Cole, 1989; Rogoff, 1986, 1990; Valsiner, 1987; Vygotsky, 1978; Wertsch, 1979). This increasing emphasis on the facilitating role of adults and peers helps to place child development in context, rather than focusing on individual children as if they develop in a vacuum, uninfluenced by the people around them and by the social and technological inventions they learn to employ.

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Feinman Saul (1992) Social referencing and the social construction of reality in infancy. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 323-348

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2462-9_13

Full citation:

Rogoff Barbara, Mistry Jayanthi, Radziszewska Barbara, Germond Jamie (1992) „Infants' instrumental social interaction with adults“, In: S. Feinman (ed.), Social referencing and the social construction of reality in infancy, Dordrecht, Springer, 323–348.