Contemporary Constructions of the Child
Essays in Honor of William Kessen
Published on 1. March 1991
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-0-8058-0607-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains critical state-of-the-art essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry. Among the topics examined: infant perception, action and social cognition; concept development and language; children's play; parent education; children with autism and Tourette's Syndrome; pediatrics and child development; and science, practice, and gender roles in early child psychology.
A distinctive unifying theme arises from the contributors' discussions of substantive ideas in the context of their own impressive intellectual biographies. While providing a collective case-study in the recent history of ideas, the contributors honor the intellectual and personal influence of William Kessen.
A distinctive unifying theme arises from the contributors' discussions of substantive ideas in the context of their own impressive intellectual biographies. While providing a collective case-study in the recent history of ideas, the contributors honor the intellectual and personal influence of William Kessen.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Mahwah
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8058-0607-6 (9780805806076)
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Content
Contents: F.S. Kessel, Vision, Scholarship, and the Child: An Introduction to this Collection. Part I:Human Infancy. A.J. Sameroff, Learning and Motivation at Yale. M.M. Haith, Gratuity, Perception-Action Integration, and Future Orientation in Infant Vision. M.H. Bornstein, L. Mayes, Taking the Measure of Infant Mind. L.R. Sherrod, Studying Infants' Lives: Competency, Context and Variability. K.T. Young, What Parents and Experts Think About Infants. Part II:Thinking, Language, Self. K. Nelson, Concept Development in the Perspective of the Recent History of Developmental Psychology. M.L. Serafine, Thought and Sound in Music and Mind. K.E. Nelson, Varied Domains of Development: A Tale of LAD, MAD, SAD, DAD, and RARE and Surprising Events in Our RELMs. G.G. Fein, Bloodsuckers, Blisters, Cooked Babies, and Other Curiosities: Affective Themes in Pretense. D.J. Cohen, Finding Meaning in One's Self and Others: Clinical Studies of Children with Autism and Tourette's Syndrome. Part III:Practice and Policy, History and Theory. K.A. Clarke-Stewart, Developmental Psychology in the Real World: A Paradigm of Parent Education. M.E. Lamb, D.M. Teti, K.J. Sternberg, C.M. Malkin, Child Maltreatment and the Child Welfare System. N.W. Hall, Pediatrics and Child Development: A Parallel History. E.D. Cahan, Science, Practice, and Gender Roles in Early American Child Psychology. L.S. Siegel, On the Maturation of Developmental Psychology. D. Frye, The End of Development? G. Mandler, What Are You Going to Do When You Grow Up? A Personal Inquiry. W. Kessen, Nearing the End: A Lifetime of Being 17.