Representing Development
The social construction of models of change
- 204 pages
- English
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Representing Development
The social construction of models of change
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Representing Development
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Going Backwards to Move Forwards – Understanding the Shortcomings of Developmental Science
- PART I Emerging Representations of Development
- PART II Study of Development in its Move to the Twenty-first Century
- PART III Representing What is Yet to Happen: Ideas for New Pathways into Developmental Science
- General Conclusion – Representing Development: The Social Construction of Models of Change
- Index