Ellen A. Skinner, Thomas Kindermann, Andrew Mashburn

Lifespan Developmental Systems (eBook, ePUB)

Meta-theory, Methodology and the Study of Applied Problems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative textbook takes advanced undergraduate and graduate students "behind the curtain" of standard developmental science, so they can begin to appreciate the generative value and methodological challenges of a lifespan developmental systems perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429820755
• Artikelnr.: 56760466

Autorenporträt

Ellen A. Skinner, trained as a lifespan developmentalist, is a leading expert on the development of children's motivation, coping, and academic identity in school. She is a Professor of Human Development and Chair of the Psychology Department at Portland State University.

Thomas A. Kindermann is a lifespan developmental psychologist and Professor in the Psychology Department at Portland State University. He is a leading expert on children's peer affiliations in school and how they can foster or undermine children's academic development.

Andrew J. Mashburn, a Professor of Developmental Psychology at Portland State University, is a leading expert on the transition to kindergarten. He conducts research to describe, explain, and promote young children's school readiness and long-term academic success.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Welcome to the Journey
1 Getting Straight on the Goals of Developmental Science
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS META-THEORIES
Section I: How Are Unexamined Assumptions Shaping Developmental Science?
2 "Understanding" Theories: Why It's Important and How to Do It
3 Dueling Theories of Attachment and Why They Are Fighting
4 Uncovering Assumptions We Hold about Human Development
5 Is Human Development a Tree, a Machine, a Butterfly, or a Dance?
6 Contrasting Meta-theories: Friends or Enemies?
Section II: How Can Contextual Approaches Enrich Our Understanding of
Development?
7 Lifespan Developmental Paradigm Shift: Developing People in Changing
Contexts
8 Ecological Revolutions: Alive and Well and Living in Multi-level
Partially Nested Contexts
9 The Bioecological Model Reinvented: Proximal Processes as the Engines of
Development
10 Transactional Dialectical Advice: Qualitative Shifts and the Ice Cream
Cone in a Can
Section III: What More Does a Lifespan Developmental Systems Perspective
Have to Offer?
11 Relational Developmental Systems Meta-theories: Walking with
Complementarities
12 Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Meta-theories: Much Convergence but Still
Feuding?
13 Putting It All Together I: The Big Developmental Systems Ideas of Levels
and Engines
14 Putting It All Together II: The Big Developmental Systems Idea of
Dynamics
LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS METHODOLOGIES
Section IV: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems?
Description
15 The Assumptions in Your Hammer: How Meta-theories Shape Methods and Vice
Versa
16 Adding Development to Designs: Cross-sectional, Longitudinal, and
Cross-sequential Designs
17 Crossing Developmental Boundaries I: Sampling Equivalence and Selection
18 Crossing Developmental Boundaries II: Measurement Equivalence and
"Developmentally-friendly" Conceptualizations
Section V: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems?
Explanation
19 Building a Time Machine I: Lab and Field Experimental Designs
20 Building a Time Machine II: Naturalistic Designs and Causal Inferences
21 Looking under the Hood I: Proximal Processes and Sequential Observations
22 Looking under the Hood II: Intra-individual Time Series, Episodes, and
Trajectories
23 Whole Persons in Complex Contexts: Person-centered Approaches
Section VI: What Tools Can We Use to Study Developmental Systems?
Optimization
24 Developing Contexts: Weather, Co-adaptation, and Attunement
25 Developing Brains: Experience and Neuroplasticity
26 Developing Individuals: Transformations and Branching Cascades
27 Multiple Lines of Sight: Converging Operations and Open Minds
Afterword: The Journey Continues
Index