Child development : theories and critical perspectives

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shute, Rosalyn H. (Author), Slee, Phillip T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , c2015
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ways of knowing about development
  • 2. From Darwin to DNA : biologically based theories of development
  • 3. A rainbow is more than the sum of its colours :beginnings of organicism
  • 4. The child as philosopher
  • 5. From Oedipus to attachment : the Freudian legacy
  • 6. Mechanism : the whole is equal to the sum of its parts
  • 7. Dialecticism : the child developing in a social world
  • 8. The historic event : contextualism
  • 9. Sociocultural influences on development
  • 10. Systems theories
  • 11. Listening to different voices 1 : feminism and developmental psychology
  • 12. Listening to different voices 2 : the voices of children
  • 13. Towards theoretical integration
  • 14. The theory-practice nexus