1st Edition

Representing Development The social construction of models of change

Edited By David Carre, Jaan Valsiner, Stefan Hampl Copyright 2017
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Representing Development presents the different social representations that have formed the idea of development in Western thinking over the past three centuries. Offering an acute perspective on the current state of developmental science and providing constructive insights into future pathways, the book draws together twelve contributors with a variety of multidisciplinary and international... Read more

Introduction - Going Backwards to Move Forward: Understanding the shortcomings of Developmental Science Stefan Hampl, David Carré & Jaan Valsiner  Part 1: Emerging Representations of Development  Goethe and Werner: From Morphology to Orthogenetic Principle Ulrich Müller & Abigail Graves  Making Sense of Self-Completing Wholes: Epistemological travels of Hans Driesch Jaan Valsiner  The Need to Bridge Concepts of Development in the Life Sciences Vanessa Lux   Part 2: Study of Development in its Move to the Twenty-first Century  The Passion of Bob Cairns: Creating Developmental Science Jaan Valsiner  The Loss of Piaget as a Symptom: The issue of development in contemporary cognitive psychology Eduardo Mart  Neuroscience: Can it Become Developmental? Aaro Toomela  Socio-developmental Aspects of Apprenticeship: The Case of Musical Tuition Pablo Rojas  Part 3: Representing What is Yet to Happen: Ideas for New Pathways into Developmental Science  On the "Ganzheit" and Stratification of the Mind: The Emergence of Heinz Werner’s Developmental Theory  Commentary by Martin Wieser  Reconsidering Equipotentiality: Agency and the Directions of Development Commentary by Vanessa Lux  Observations on Karl and Charlotte Bühler’s Perspective of Development Commentary by Gerhard Benetka  The Dangerous Look of Development and Developmental Science Commentary by Jeanette A. Lawrence & Agnes E. Dodds  Knowledge in Mind: Piaget's Epistemology Commentary by Leslie Smith  Time is of the Essence: From the Estimation of Single Points to the Description of Functions Commentary by Felipe Munoz-Rubke  Reprise in Musical Tuition: Hints on the Helical Nature of Development Commentary by David Carré  General Conclusion - Representing Development: Pasts, Presents, Futures David Carré, Jaan Valsiner & Stefan Hampl

Biography

David Carré is PhD research fellow at the Niels Bohr Professorship Centre for Cultural Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Stefan Hampl is Vice Rector for Teaching and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University, Austria.