Christopher Goodey

Development (eBook, PDF)

The History of a Psychological Concept

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the historical roots of psychology''s ''developmental idea'' back to Christian beliefs from the past two millennia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108987882
• Artikelnr.: 70912879

Autorenporträt

Christopher Goodey is a former lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the Open University and the author of A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability': The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Development and the origin of psychological concepts
2. The history of Christianity and the first principles of development: linear time, interiority, structure
3. The history of education: rearing the elect child
4. Pascal on the ordering of human time
5. The normalization of the elect: Locke to Montesquieu
6. The coining of a developmental theory: Leibniz to Bonnet
7. Emile: Rousseau's well-ordered developer
8. Nature versus nurture and cognitive ability testing: historical sketches
Postscript: further targets for historical research.