1st Edition
Growing Critical Alternatives to Developmental Psychology
By John R. Morss
Copyright 1996
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
New Preface to the Reissue of 2024. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Naturally Social: Vygotsky and the Social Context of Development 3. Persons in Conversation: The Social Construction of Development 4. The Problem of Development 5. Marxism and the Critique of Development 6. Psychoanalysis and the Subversion of Development 7. Post-structuralism and the Deconstruction of Development 8. Writing Against Development. References. Name Index. Subject Index.
Biography
John R. Morss
