Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (Critical Psychology) - Softcover

Burman, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415064384 ISBN 13: 9780415064385

Verlag: Routledge, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Burman Erica

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Críticas

"In "Deconstructing Developmental Psychology, Erica Burman has performed a riveting deconstruction of some of developmental psychology's most cherished and unchallenged principles and shown these to be, at the very least, problematic if not overtly sexist and culturally oppressive. After reading this book, your notions of childhood and child development will have been fundamentally challenged and I can not think of a better recommendation for a book than that. This is a model of what 'critical scholarship' should look like." -Nursing Times

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Erica Burman takes a fresh, critical look at developmental psychology and the gender and cultural assumptions that underpin much of the research on child development and parenting. Behaviourism, the child-centred approach, and the major theories of child language and learning, including those of Piaget and Bowlby, pathologise those individuals and groups who do not meet their idealised models. This book chellenges fundamental notions of childhood and child development.
Deconstructing Developmental Psychology is designed to accompany and comment upon conventional texts and will sharpen students' desire to examine the theories behind the facts which make up their courses. The book will appeal especially to all those who feel that developmental psychology produces an ideal which certain groups in society are unable to live up to.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415064384
• ISBN 13: 9780415064385
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224