Contemporary Constructions of the Child: Essays in Honor of William Kessen

ISBN-13: 9781032105338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 360 str.

Kessel, Frank S.

Opis

First published in 1991, this title contains critical essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry. Providing a collective case-study in the recent history of ideas, they honor the intellectual and personal influence of William Kessen.

Spis treści

Preface.  Vision, Scholarship, and the Child: An Introduction to this Collection F.S. Kessel  Part I: Human Infancy  1. Learning and Motivation at Yale A.J. Sameroff  2. Gratuity, Perception-Action Integration, and Future Orientation in Infant Vision M.M. Haith  3. Taking the Measure of Infant Mind M.H. Bornstein and L. Mayes  4. Studying Infants' Lives: Competency, Context and Variability L.R. Sherrod  5. What Parents and Experts Think About Infants K.T. Young  Part II: Thinking, Language, Self  6. Concept Development in the Perspective of the Recent History of Developmental Psychology K. Nelson  7. Thought and Sound in Music and Mind M.L. Serafine  8. Varied Domains of Development: A Tale of LAD, MAD, SAD, DAD, and RARE and Surprising Events in Our RELMs K.E. Nelson  9. Bloodsuckers, Blisters, Cooked Babies, and Other Curiosities: Affective Themes in Pretense G.G. Fein  10. Finding Meaning in One's Self and Others: Clinical Studies of Children with Autism and Tourette's Syndrome D.J. Cohen  Part III: Practice and Policy, History and Theory  11. Developmental Psychology in the Real World: A Paradigm of Parent Education K.A. Clarke-Stewart  12. Child Maltreatment and the Child Welfare System M.E. Lamb, D.M. Teti, K.J. Sternberg and C.M. Malkin  13. Pediatrics and Child Development: A Parallel History N.W. Hall  14. Science, Practice, and Gender Roles in Early American Child Psychology E.D. Cahan  15. On the Maturation of Developmental Psychology L.S. Siegel  16. The End of Development? D. Frye  17. What Are You Going to Do When You Grow Up? A Personal Inquiry G. Mandler  18. Nearing the End: A Lifetime of Being 17 W. Kessen.  Curriculum Vitae: William Kessen.  Author Biographies.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Frank S. Kessel, Marc H. Bornstein, Arnold J. Sameroff