Disentangling the social and the pedagogical in infants' learning about tool-use

Social Development

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 825-844

  Sage, Kara D ^a   Baldwin, Dare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Infancy; Pedagogy; Social learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054089843     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2011.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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