Developmental Psychology
How Nature and Nurture Interact
Will be published approx. on 20. December 1999
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-333-74042-2 (ISBN)
Description
Psychology is caught in a conflict of paradigms. We all claim to be interactionists, yet we continue to accept the language and the thinking of traditional dichotomies: nature/nurture, innate/learned, mind/body, organism/environment. This clear and refreshingly-written authoritative text explores these confusions and moves on to offer an alternative view of development, first describing in an accessible way ecological and dynamic systems perspectives and then combining them to provide a more coherent and powerful critique of recent research and major issues.
Reviews / Votes
'Keith Richardson has an obvious gift for conveying difficult ideas in a reader-friendly fashion... This is a very important and timely contribution to theory-building in developmental psychology at both undergraduate and graduate level.' - Brian Hopkins, Professor of Psychology, Lancaster University 'Authoritative in his approach, the author has a strong grasp of a wide range of theories and research, and I found his treatment of them to be clear, coherent and consistent. It is a text which...will be accessible to second and third year students, and immensely helpful to them for its presentation of a perspective which is not always easily grasped at this level, but which, in one way or another, informs much recent work in developmental psychology.' - Gerard Duveen, University of CambridgeMore details
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12/1999
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
DR KEITH RICHARDSON is Associate Lecturer on the Open University course in Child Development and Senior Lecturer in Education at Whitefield Schools and Centre, London, incorporating liaison with Kingston University on four postgraduate diplomas.
Content
Introduction: The Traditional View and its Alternative, A Summary.- Darwinian Dichotomies and Their Dissolution.- Towards the Alternative: Ecological, Dynamic Systems.- Dynamic Systems Theories.- The Ecological Perspective: Gibson's Legacy.- The Creation of Knowledge.- A Sample of the Evidence: Wise Owls, Accurate Ants.- Origins of Knowledge.- Glossary.- References.- Index.