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Developments
Child, Image, Nation
- By Erica Burman.
Published December 2007
How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world? What do cultural representations tell us about the contemporary politics of childhood? What is the political economy of childhood?
This companion volume to Burman's Deconstructing Developmental Psychology helps us to explain why…
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Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
- By Erica Burman.
Published September 2007
What is childhood and why, and how, did psychology come to be the arbiter of 'correct'or 'normal' development? How do actual lived childhoods connect with theories about child development? In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the…
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Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures
Theory and Applications, Second Edition
- By Çigdem Kagitçibasi.
Published March 2007
Reflecting author Çigdem Kagitçibasi's influential work over the last two decades, this new edition examines human development, the self, and the family in a cultural context. It challenges the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals.
The author…
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Theories of Human Development
- By Barbara M Newman, and Barbara M. Newman.
Published March 2007
Intended for courses on theories of human development, this new text presents nine theories grouped into three major families - those that emphasize biological systems; those that emphasize environmental factors; and those that emphasize a dynamic interaction between biological and environmental…
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Cultures of Infancy
- By Heidi Keller.
Published February 2007
Cultures of Infancy presents the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural psychological perspectives for a broader understanding of human development. In this compelling book, author Heidi Keller utilizes ethnographic reports,…
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Developmental Science
An Advanced Textbook, Fifth Edition
- Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, and Michael E. Lamb.
Published March 2005
Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the field for advanced students. Readers of this textbook will obtain a new perspective on developmental science, a greater appreciation of the varied phenomena that constitute developmental…
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Well-Being
Positive Development Across the Life Course
- Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, Lucy Davidson, Corey L.M. Keyes and Kristin A. Moore.
Published December 2002
This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. Scholars, practitioners, public health professionals, and principals in the child development community convened to address a science-based framework for…
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Concepts and Theories of Human Development
- By Richard M. Lerner.
Published July 2001
A classic in the field, this third edition will continue to be the book of choice for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in theories of human development in departments of psychology and human development.
This volume has been substantially revised with an eye toward supporting…
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