| Contents |
Introduction -- Development and the origin of psychological concepts -- The history of Christianity and the first principles of development: linear time, interiority, structure -- The history of education: rearing the elect child -- Pascal on the ordering of human time -- The normalization of the elect: Locke to Montesquieu -- The coining of a developmental theory: Leibniz to Bonnet -- Emile: Rousseau's well-ordered developer -- Nature versus nurture and cognitive ability testing: historical sketches -- Postscript: Further targets for historical research. |
| Abstract |
"Development is one of psychology's given components. Psychologists and consequently the lay public in Western cultures see childhood as well as adult character in terms of what I call here 'the developmental idea', describing a scientific category that exists 'out there' in nature. The human interior, it seems, passes through a necessary series of stages that play out over time. And so the youngest of us are only potential human beings; we do not start to display signs of 'empathy', say, until we are three, or 'logical reasoning' until we are six: or so we are told. Adult character and conduct are the desired outcome of those stages (though a few of us, it appears, never reach them even when we arrive at adulthood by calendar age)"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 09, 2021). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Goodey, C. F. Development Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108833479 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021024575 |
| ISBN | 9781108980845 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1108980848 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781108987882 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1108987885 electronic book |
| ISBN | hardcover |
