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Historical Developmental Psychology (Hardcover)
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This book explores and underlines the thesis that developmental
psychology cannot function fruitfully without systematic historical
scholarship. Scientific thinking not only depends on
empirical-analytical research, but also requires self-reflection
and critical thinking about the discipline's foundations and
history. The relevance of history was made especially clear in the
writings of William Kessen, who analyzed how both children and
child development are shaped "by the larger cultural forces of
political maneuverings, practical economics, and implicit
ideological commitments." As a corollary, he emphasized that the
science of developmental psychology itself is culturally and
historically shaped in significant ways. Discussing the
implications of these insights in the book's introduction, Koops
and Kessel stress that we need a Historical Developmental
Psychology. In the book's following chapters, historians of
childhood - Mintz, Stearns, Lassonde, Sandin, and Vicedo -
demonstrate how conceptions of childhood vary across historical
time and sociocultural space. These foundational variations are
specified by these historians and by developmental psychologists -
Harris and Keller - in the research domains of emotions,
attachment, and parenting. This collection demonstrates the
importance of bridging, both intellectually and institutionally,
the gap between the research of historians, and both current and
future research of developmental psychologists. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of
Developmental Psychology.
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