The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality (Critical Psychology Series)

By V. Walkerdine

This study of children's cognitive development also explores the social and psychological production of reason and rationality. The author shows how notions of rationality and the triumph over reason are an early induction into mankind's need to believe in their control over the universe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415052335
• ISBN13: 9780415052337
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 2.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary