Richard M. Lerner

Concepts and Theories of Human Development (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the most comprehensive and in-depth overview of the foundational theoretical contributions to understanding human development and the influence of these contributions for contemporary research and application in developmental science. It is an essential resource for graduate students and professionals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 628
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136674075
• Artikelnr.: 52472130

Autorenporträt

Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, in the Eliot Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, at Tufts University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. 1. On the Primacy of Concepts and Theories 2. Concepts
and Theories within Contemporary Developmental Science: An Overview 3.
Philosophical and Scientific Roots of Contemporary Developmental Science 4.
Metatheoretical Models of Development 5. Theoretical Roots of Contemporary
Developmental Science: Nomothetic (Stage), Differential, and Idiographic
(Ipsative) Approaches 6. Toward Resolving the Nature-Nurture Controversy:
Contributions and Implications of the Scholarship of Anne Anastasi 7.
Toward Resolving the Nature-Nurture Controversy: Contributions and
Implications of the Scholarship of T. C. Schneirla 8. Contributions and
Implications of the Scholarship of Heinz Werner: The Orthogenetic Principle
and the Resolution of the Continuity-Discontinuity Issue 9. Relational
Developmental Systems-Based Theories: Comparative, Evolutionary, and
Ontogenetic Conceptions 10. Relational Developmental Systems-Based
Theories: Sample Cases 11. Genetic Reductionism in Developmental Science:
Sample Cases from the 20th Century 12. Genetic Reductionism in
Developmental Science: Sample Cases from the 20th and 21st Centuries 13.
Some Implications of Relational Developmental Systems-Based Theories for
Research Methods and for the Application of Developmental Science