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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lerner, Richard M. Concepts and theories of human development. Mahwah, New Jersey : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c1997 (OCoLC)647233759 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard M Lerner |
| ISBN: | 0805826823 9780805826821 |
| OCLC Number: | 37332263 |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
| Description: | xviii, 522 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Human Development: Facts or Theory? -- Students and Basic Courses in Science: Facts Versus Theory -- Philosophy, Theory, and Research -- Textbooks in Human Development -- Developmental Contextualism as an Instance of Developmental Systems Theory -- Defining the Concept of Development -- Historical Roots of Human Development: Concepts and Theories -- The Historical Role of the Nature-Nurture Issue -- Philosophical Roots -- Scientific Roots of Development -- The 1990s Through Today: The Emergence of Developmental Systems -- Philosophical Models of Development -- The Mechanistic-Philosophical Model -- The Organismic Model -- Mechanistic and Organismic Models and Issues of Development -- The Contextual Model -- The Concept of Development in Developmental Contextualism -- Limits and Problems of a Developmental-Contextual Perspective -- Implications of Philosophical Models of Development for Scientific Activity -- The Nature-Nurture Controversy: Implications of the Question How? -- Toward a Resolution of the Nature-Nurture Controversy -- Heredity-Environment Dynamic Interactions -- The Norm of Reaction -- The Continuity-Discontinuity Issue -- Continuity-Discontinuity as a Theoretical Issue -- The Contributions of Heinz Werner -- The Orthogenetic Principle -- The Phylogeny of Learning: Continuity or Discontinuity? -- Ontogenetic Implications of the Continuity-Discontinuity Issue -- The Stability-Instability Issue -- Continuity and Discontinuity in Development: Metatheoretical and Theoretical Proscriptions and Prescriptions. |
| Responsibility: | Richard M. Lerner. |
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