Representing Development: The Social Construction of Models of Change

ISBN-13: 9781138853386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 204 str.

Opis

Representing Development presents the different social representations that have formed the idea of development in Western thinking over the past three centuries. Offering an acute perspective on the current state of developmental science and providing constructive insights into future pathways, the book draws together twelve contributors with a variety of multidisciplinary and international perspectives to focus upon development in fields including biology, psychology and sociology.

Chapters and commentaries in this volume present a variety of perspectives surrounding social representation and development, addressing their contemporary enactments and reflecting on future theoretical and empirical directions. The first section of the book provides an historical account of early representations of development that, having come from life science, has shaped the way in which developmental science has approached development. Section two focuses upon the contemporary issues of developmental psychology, neuroscience and developmental science at large. The final section offers a series of commentaries pointing to the questions opened by the previous chapters, looking to outline the future lines of developmental thinking.

This book will be of particular interest to child psychologists, educational psychologists and sociologists or historians of science, as well as academics and students interested in developmental and life sciences.

Spis treści

Introduction - Going Backwards to Move Forward: Understanding the shortcomings of Developmental Science  Part 1: Emerging Representations of Development  Goethe and Werner: From Morphology to Orthogenetic Principle  Making Sense of Self-Completing Wholes: Epistemological travels of Hans Driesch  The Need to Bridge Concepts of Development in the Life Sciences  Part 2: Study of Development in its Move to the Twenty-first Century  The Passion of Bob Cairns: Creating Developmental Science  The Loss of Piaget as a Symptom: The issue of development in contemporary cognitive psychology.  Neuroscience: Can it Become Developmental?  Socio-developmental Aspects of Apprenticeship: The Case of Musical Tuition  Part 3: Representing What is Yet to Happen: Ideas for New Pathways into Developmental Science  On the "Ganzheit" and Stratification of the Mind: The Emergence of Heinz Werner’s Developmental Theory  Reconsidering Equipotentiality: Agency and the Directions of Development  Observations on Karl and Charlotte Bühler’s Perspective of Development  The Dangerous Look of Development and Developmental Science  Knowledge in Mind: Piaget's Epistemology  Time is of the Essence: From the Estimation of Single Points to the Description of Functions  Reprise in Musical Tuition: Hints on the Helical Nature of Development  General Conclusion - Representing Development: Pasts, Presents, Futures