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Peer reviewedKeegan, Robert T.; Gruber, Howard E. – Human Development, 1994
Comments on Bradley's interpretation (PS 522 367) of Darwin's baby observations in this issue. Argues that Bradley reduced Darwin to a mere rhetorician, exaggerated Erasmus Darwin's influence, and diminished the importance of intertextual links in Darwin's own previous writings. Disagrees that Darwin's primary motive was rhetorical and suggests…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedWhite, Sheldon H. – Human Development, 1994
Comments sympathetically on Bradley's interpretation (PS 522 367) of Darwin's baby observations in this issue. Draws from Bradley to provide a sketch of the politics of child development as a human enterprise, and questions the view of developmental psychology as a positivistic, value-free field. (TM)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedBradley, Ben S. – Human Development, 1994
Responds to commentaries by Keegan and Gruber on Bradley's article in this issue, refuting charges of oversimplification of Darwin's ideas. States that the Darwin example undermines the notion that developmental psychology is insulated from cultural preoccupations, arguing that Darwin is important for introducing a new psychological poetic.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedBradley, Ben S. – Human Development, 1994
Notes that Charles Darwin's observations on babies are not examples of data collected to test hypotheses. Draws from Bakhtin to argue that they extend and vary existing modes of discourse, primarily debates about the place of instinct in language acquisition, traceable to his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. Concludes that the significance of Darwin's…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior
