Description |
1 online resource (vi, 211 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction -- Development and the origin of psychological concepts -- The history of Christianity and the first principles of development: linear time, interiority, structure -- The history of education: rearing the elect child -- Pascal on the ordering of human time -- The normalization of the elect: Locke to Montesquieu -- The coining of a developmental theory: Leibniz to Bonnet -- Emile: Rousseau's well-ordered developer -- Nature versus nurture and cognitive ability testing: historical sketches -- Postscript: Further targets for historical research |
Summary |
"Development is one of psychology's given components. Psychologists and consequently the lay public in Western cultures see childhood as well as adult character in terms of what I call here 'the developmental idea', describing a scientific category that exists 'out there' in nature. The human interior, it seems, passes through a necessary series of stages that play out over time. And so the youngest of us are only potential human beings; we do not start to display signs of 'empathy', say, until we are three, or 'logical reasoning' until we are six: or so we are told. Adult character and conduct are the desired outcome of those stages (though a few of us, it appears, never reach them even when we arrive at adulthood by calendar age)"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021) |
Subject |
Developmental psychology -- History
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PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General.
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Developmental psychology
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021024575 |
ISBN |
9781108980845 |
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1108980848 |
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1108987885 |
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9781108987882 |
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