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Peer reviewedOverton, Willis F. – Human Development, 1997
Notes the self-conscious reflection that emerges in the fifth edition of the "Handbook of Child Psychology." Identifies several dichotomies in developmental psychology, such as change as variational or transformational, and sees these dichotomies in the context of modernist and postmodernist attitudes. Suggests that developmental…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual History, Modernism
