Alison Gopnik: The Gardener and the Carpenter

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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 s The Gardener and the Carpenter - Alison Gopnik od authora Alison Gopnik a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz Autor : Alison Gopnik, Selected as Book of the Year by the "Financial Times", the pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher, Alison Gopnik, argues that the familiar 21st century picture of parenting is wrong. '...should be required reading for anyone who is, or is thinking of becoming a parent' "Financial Times"Druh sortimentu : Kniha, The Gardener and the Carpenter, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 304