Culture
Expanding a Kid's Ideas About 'Home'
Four households around the world reveal unique yet familiar domestic experiences in an immersive new app.
A classic theory of cognitive development says that as a kid grows up, her sense of membership in the world grows outward.
A kindergartener conceptualizes herself at the center of her environment, and sees her role in her family and classroom through personal experiences. As she ages through elementary school, she gradually expands that concept of herself in the world to include the lives of others: Other children in her school, adults in her city, other people in the world.