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Marching toward the Millennium. Commentary.
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Overton, 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
How Developmental Psychologists Make Their Ideas Clearer. Commentary.
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Cahan, Emily D.; White, Sheldon H. – Human Development, 1997
The lineage of developmental psychology has involved three waves of research in the 1890s (Hall), 1930s, and 1960s (Piaget). Over these years, a cooperative knowledge-building process arose, fostered by new journals in the 1930s, in which articles built upon one another and sustained or redirected trains of thought among a community of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Intellectual History, Periodicals
The Handbook's Back Pages--And Ours.
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Damon, William – Human Development, 1997
Reviews the history of the several editions of the "Handbook of Child Psychology" from 1931 to the present. Identifies continuing themes and alterations in theoretical orientation within the field of human development that are found in the handbook's editions. Discusses the strategy behind and the contents of the 1997 edition. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Guides
Cheiron's Contribution to the History of Developmental Psychology.
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Goodman, Elizabeth S. – Human Development, 1979
Briefly comments on the activities of Cheiron, The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and mentions several presentations from past meetings of Cheiron which focused on topics of interest to developmentalists. (SS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Historiography, Intellectual History, Professional Associations
Change within Limits. Commentary.
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J. – Human Development, 1997
Reflects on four aspects of the history of developmental psychology. Notes that the discipline has followed a path from fact collection without theory, to grand theories, to a profusion of minitheories; expanded focus from child to lifespan development; exhibited increased cross-disciplinary interests; and become more sensitive to addressing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Ethnic Bias, Intellectual History
Commentary.
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Keegan, 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
Commentary.
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White, 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
Reply.
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Bradley, 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
Darwin's Intertextual Baby: Erasmus Darwin as Precursor in Child Psychology.
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Bradley, 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
A New Generation: New Intellectual Opportunities. Commentary.
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Youniss, James – Human Development, 1997
Earlier generations of developmental psychologists, seeking to make their discipline a normative science, stressed experimental study of children, method over subject matter, and fundamental laws underlying behavior. By contrast, the generation of psychologists after 1970 is inclusive in its research methodology, concerned with the connection…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Development, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology