Child development

Slee, Phillip T.

Child development thinking about theories / [electronic resource] : Phillip T. Slee, Rosalyn H. Shute. - London : Routledge, 2013. - xi, 232 p. : ill. - Texts in developmental psychology . - Texts in developmental psychology. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Ways of knowing about development -- 2. From Darwin to DNA : biologically based theories of development -- 3. A rainbow is more than the sum of its colours : beginnings of organicism -- 4. The child as philosophy -- 5. From Oedipus to attachment : the Freudian legacy -- 6. Mechanism : the whole is equal to the sum of its parts -- 7. Mechanism : the whole is equal to the sum of its parts : 8. The historic event : contextualism -- 9. Sociocultural influences on development -- 10. Listening to different voices : feminism and development psychology -- 11. Putting it all together : towards theoretical integration -- 12. From theory into practice.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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