The body: the beginning of reasoning and the development of spatial thinking
Abstract
The child's awareness of space begins in the womb, in a dynamic cerebral register of perceptions and experiences. After birth, this relationship intensifies and progressively acquires meaning and contours, allowing a deeper level of engagement with the environment, in a process of cultural appropriation, of humanization. An analysis of the processes involved in this dynamic reveals the interweaving of different elements or fundamental aspects of the child's development of spatial awareness, a context in which the knowledge and mastery of one's own body stand out as central to this construction, in a body-space-territory dynamic.
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