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Morss's book does a fine job of sensitizing us to the dialectical extremes of these poles, along the way presenting complex and frequently abstruse ideas in a very understandable and engaging manner.
–Contemporary Psychology, Dec, 1998
Morsss book does a fine job of sensitizing us to the dialectical extremes of these poles, along the way presenting complex and frequently abstruse ideas in a very understandable and engaging manner.
–Contemporary Psychology, Dec, 1998
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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 Morss guides the reader from the early critical movements of the early 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," at Harre's "social construction," Marxist critique of developmental psychology, psychoanalytic interpretations of development and 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.
Marxism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism--as well as such movements as feminism--challenge our understandings of human development. In Growing Critical, Morss examines the implications of these challenges.
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social construction writers, social construction position, developmental statements, social construction approach, critical psychology, critical psychologists, developmental claims, orthodox psychology, social context approach, concrete capacities, developmental explanation, dialectical psychology, developmental argument, developmental one, revolutionary scientist Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Changing the Subject, Stainton Rogers, Kritische Psychologie, Frankfurt School, Critical Theory, Soviet Union, Stories of Childhood, Communist Party, Kenneth Gergen, Western Europe, Critical Theories of Psychological Development, Soviet Marxism, Howard Kirk, The Mastery of Reason, Jacques Lacan, Jerome Bruner, John Shotter, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Lev Vygotsky, The History Man, Vygotsky's Marxism, Herbert Spencer, Jean Piaget, Michel Foucault New!
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social construction writers, social construction position, developmental statements, social construction approach, critical psychology, critical psychologists, developmental claims, orthodox psychology, social context approach, concrete capacities, developmental explanation, dialectical psychology, developmental argument, developmental one, revolutionary scientist Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Changing the Subject, Stainton Rogers, Kritische Psychologie, Frankfurt School, Critical Theory, Soviet Union, Stories of Childhood, Communist Party, Kenneth Gergen, Western Europe, Critical Theories of Psychological Development, Soviet Marxism, Howard Kirk, The Mastery of Reason, Jacques Lacan, Jerome Bruner, John Shotter, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Lev Vygotsky, The History Man, Vygotsky's Marxism, Herbert Spencer, Jean Piaget, Michel Foucault New!
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- Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity by J. Henriques on 14 pages
- Critical Theories of Psychological Development (Path in Psychology) by John M. Broughton on 7 pages
- The Mastery of Reason: Cognitive Development and the Production of Rationality by Valerie Walkerdine on 5 pages
- Stories of Childhood: Shifting Agendas in Child Concern by R.Stainton Rogers on 5 pages
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages
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- Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life by Lois Holzman in Front Matter, and page 26
- Postmodern Psychologies, Societal Practice, and Political Life by Lois Holzman in Front Matter, and page 26
- Making Sense of Social Development (Child Development in Families, Schools and Society, 3) by M. Woodhead in Front Matter, and page 267
- Beyond the Century of the Child: Cultural History and Developmental Psychology by Willem Koops in Back Matter
- From Children's Services to Children's Spaces: Public Policy, Children and Childhood by Peter Moss in Back Matter
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