Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development
Published on 25. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-0-7914-5180-9 (ISBN)
Description
An array of exciting new studies of child and adolescent development phenomena.
Unique in its attention to both cultural and critical perspectives, this book contributes strongly to the advance of developmental psychology beyond the cognitive-developmental paradigm that has defined the field for the past quarter century. It provides insights from critical pedagogy, cultural psychology, feminism, postmodernism, critical theory, and semiotics and offers new perspectives into the lived experiences of children, adolescents, and adults in the contemporary world.
Unique in its attention to both cultural and critical perspectives, this book contributes strongly to the advance of developmental psychology beyond the cognitive-developmental paradigm that has defined the field for the past quarter century. It provides insights from critical pedagogy, cultural psychology, feminism, postmodernism, critical theory, and semiotics and offers new perspectives into the lived experiences of children, adolescents, and adults in the contemporary world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5180-9 (9780791451809)
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Persons
Martin J. Packer is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, and the coeditor of Entering the Circle: Hermeneutic Investigation in Psychology, also published by SUNY Press. Mark B. Tappan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Education and Human Development Program at Colby College, and the coeditor (with Martin J. Packer) of Narrative and Storytelling: Implications for Understanding Moral Development.
Content
Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction
Martin J. Packer
Mark B. Tappan
I. Culture as the Ground for a Form of Life
Chapter 2 A Utopian Methodology as a Tool for Cultural and Critical Psychologies: Toward a Positive Critical Theory
Katherine Brown
Michael Cole
Chapter 3 The Return of the "White Man's Burden": The Encounter between the Moral Discourse of Anthropology and the Domestic Life of Oriya Women
Usha Menon
Richard A. Shweder
Chapter 4 Changing Classes: Shifting the Trajectory of Development in School
Martin J. Packer
II. Culture as the Operation of Power
Chapter 5 Critical Inquiry and Children in Day Care
Robin L. Leavitt
Chapter 6 Engendering Subjects: A Foucauldian Analysis of Developmental Gender Differences
Elizabeth Debold
III. Culture as the Circulation of Semiotic Forms
Chapter 7 Exploring the Felt Pathways of the Self: From Experience to Meaning-Making in Children, K-5
Linda J. Rogers
Chapter 8 Adolescent Girls, Class, and the Cultures of Femininity
Lyn Mikel Brown
Chapter 9 The Cultural Reproduction of Masculinity: A Critical Perspective on Boys' Development
Mark B. Tappan
Chapter 10 "Dead Poets Society": Deconstructing Surveillance Pedagogy
Peter McLaren
Zeus Leonardo
List of Contributors
Index
Martin J. Packer
Mark B. Tappan
I. Culture as the Ground for a Form of Life
Chapter 2 A Utopian Methodology as a Tool for Cultural and Critical Psychologies: Toward a Positive Critical Theory
Katherine Brown
Michael Cole
Chapter 3 The Return of the "White Man's Burden": The Encounter between the Moral Discourse of Anthropology and the Domestic Life of Oriya Women
Usha Menon
Richard A. Shweder
Chapter 4 Changing Classes: Shifting the Trajectory of Development in School
Martin J. Packer
II. Culture as the Operation of Power
Chapter 5 Critical Inquiry and Children in Day Care
Robin L. Leavitt
Chapter 6 Engendering Subjects: A Foucauldian Analysis of Developmental Gender Differences
Elizabeth Debold
III. Culture as the Circulation of Semiotic Forms
Chapter 7 Exploring the Felt Pathways of the Self: From Experience to Meaning-Making in Children, K-5
Linda J. Rogers
Chapter 8 Adolescent Girls, Class, and the Cultures of Femininity
Lyn Mikel Brown
Chapter 9 The Cultural Reproduction of Masculinity: A Critical Perspective on Boys' Development
Mark B. Tappan
Chapter 10 "Dead Poets Society": Deconstructing Surveillance Pedagogy
Peter McLaren
Zeus Leonardo
List of Contributors
Index