Human Development
Author: James Wilfrid Vander Zanden
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9780072825954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Wilfrid Vander Zanden
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9780072825954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Nathaniel Alexander
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Can significant advances in development occur after adolescence? What are the highest possible states or stages of human development and how can they be realized? These and related critical issues are addressed in this volume by leading researchers and theorists in adult development. How we conceive of the endpoint, or highest state of development is crucial because it shapes our understanding of the direction, possibilities, and mechanisms of human growth. Even a decade ago, most psychologists believed that qualitative advances in development did not occur after adolescence. Based on recent research on adults, however, psychologists now question whether growth of fundamental human capacities necessarily culminates prior to adulthood. This new volume explores a variety of endpoints beyond the ordinarily proposed limits of human development. In addition to describing advanced forms of cognitive functioning , contributors also discuss other domains integral to adult growth--including affective, moral, self, and consciousness development.
Author: F. Philip Rice
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Urie BRONFENBRENNER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0674028848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world's foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child's behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to "the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time." To understand the way children actually develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it will be necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. This book offers an important blueprint for constructing such a new and ecologically valid psychology of development. The blueprint includes a complete conceptual framework for analysing the layers of the environment that have a formative influence on the child. This framework is applied to a variety of settings in which children commonly develop, ranging from the pediatric ward to daycare, school, and various family configurations. The result is a rich set of hypotheses about the developmental consequences of various types of environments. Where current research bears on these hypotheses, Bronfenbrenner marshals the data to show how an ecological theory can be tested. Where no relevant data exist, he suggests new and interesting ecological experiments that might be undertaken to resolve current unknowns. Bronfenbrenner's groundbreaking program for reform in developmental psychology is certain to be controversial. His argument flies in the face of standard psychological procedures and challenges psychology to become more relevant to the ways in which children actually develop. It is a challenge psychology can ill-afford to ignore.
Author: Richard T. Knowles
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1985-11-26
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1461682592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a new approach to the psychology of human development by integrating psychological and philosophical insights on human virtue and authentic selfhood. Presents Erikson's contributions within the more general 'Care Structure,' described by Heidegger as the central structure of human existence. The major effect of this broader understanding is to give new meaning to Erikson's schedule of virtues, to see them as the central structures organizing the themes and experiences of specific stages of development.
Author: D. A. Louw
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780798632348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michele Antoinette Paludi
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on the issues of life cycle development from a multicultural perspective. It explores the impact of cultural influences on development within each of the life stages and dimensions of development and utilizes a non-Eurocentric approach. It introduces the reader to several theories, research studies and applications and examines the traditional research and modifications as a result of diverse cultural approaches. Human Development in Multicultural Contexts offers an important and significant alternative to other human development books that omit cultural variables. It helps to provide a balance in life with respect to resources, fresh perspectives, and techniques. This multicultural book is information for a psychology of all people. A non-Eurocentric approach integrates the scholarship of developmental psychology research from several cultures. It identifies historical and contemporary contributions and experiences and deals with relevant developmental issues such as vocational development, eating disorders, and dating violence. Ideal for anyone interested in developmental psychology of the developmental stages of life from a multicultural perspective.
Author: Felicity B. Kelcourse
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 2015-07-28
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0827214960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, now in its second edition, brings together the best available understandings of human development from a multidisciplinary perspective. Uniquely inclusive of the moral and faith dimensions of context and life-cycle development, Human Development and Faith examines the interplay of mind, body, family, community, and soul at every stage of development. It addresses two central questions: What are the "good-enough" conditions of parenting, family, and community in each phase of life, from birth to death, which support growth and development? What gives life adequate meaning as development proceeds? If human development describes the normative and hoped-for passages of life, then faith provides the necessary component of meaning. Throughout the various perspectives offered in this volume is the premise that faith is that quality of living that makes it possible to fully live. The Journal of Pastoral Theology called the first edition of Human Development and Faith "an excellent text for pastoral theology courses, because it fulfills its ambitious goal of bringing a holistic faith perspective to the usual topics of development." This second edition includes a new chapter on infancy, updates reflecting our growing awareness of cultural diversity, and a new preface.
Author: Srivastava Sushila & Rani, Sudha K.
Publisher: S. Chand Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9383746793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Textbook of Human Development A Lifespan Development Approach
Author: Noel Cameron
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2012-06-08
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 0123838827
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offering a study of biological, biomedical and biocultural approaches, this book is suitable for researchers, professors and graduate students across the interdisciplinary area of human development. It is presented in the form of lectures to facilitate student programming.