Growing Critical - Couverture rigide

Morss, John R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1032593105 ISBN 13 : 9781032593104

Editeur : Routledge, 2023

Synopsis

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 development' through the wide range of more recent approaches. He looks in turn at Vygotsky's 'social context of development', Harré's 'social constructionism', Marxist critique of developmental psychology, psychoanalytic interpretations of development, and finally post-structuralist approaches following Foucault and Derrida. He surveys the range of alternative positions in the critical psychology of development and evaluates the achievements of Newman and Holzman, Broughton, Tolman, Walkerdine and others.

Marxism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism - as well as such movements as feminism - challenge our understanding of human development. Morss looks beyond the laboratory to Marx and Freud, to Lacan and Foucault. What sets Growing Critical apart from orthodox psychology is the seriousness with which he has thought through the implications of these challenges.

Contemporary and 'reader-friendly', Growing Critical will be of value to both undergraduate and advanced students, as well as to anyone interested in human development, in psychology, sociology or education.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John R. Morss

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032593105
• ISBN 13: 9781032593104
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible