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Growing Critical: Alternatives to Developmental Psychology

Growing Critical: Alternatives to Developmental Psychology

Hardcover

Series: Psychology Revivals

General Psychology

ISBN10: 1032593105
ISBN13: 9781032593104
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 19 2023
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Originally published in 1996, and now with a new preface, Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology, focusing on development. It takes a fresh look at infancy, childhood and adulthood and makes the startling claim that 'development' does not exist.

John R. Morss guides the reader from the early critical movements of the 1970s which gave rise to the 'social construction of development' through the wide range of more recent approaches. He looks in turn at Vygotsky's 'social context of development', Harré's 'social constructionism', Marxist critique of developmental psychology, psychoanalytic interpretations of development, and finally post-structuralist approaches following Foucault and Derrida. He surveys the range of alternative positions in the critical psychology of development and evaluates the achievements of Newman and Holzman, Broughton, Tolman, Walkerdine and others.

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