Robert H. Wozniak

"[The book] has been specifically designed to bring the work of developmental psychologists together with that of historians of childhood, psychological anthropologists, sociologists, psycholinguists, and experts in other fields, to examine the diversity of children's development in the complex, changing social contexts in which it occurs. In the [book's] chapters ... we will be studying children as they change within these developing contexts. Through this study we will be led to a deeper understanding of the many forces that bring about change--change in individuals, in families, in societies, and in humankind"--Introd.

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Developing Child Telcourse

National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

Presents the online exhibition, "Mind and Body: Rene Descartes to William James." Provides information on the rise of experimental psychology. Discusses Rene Descartes and mind/body dualism, experimental psychology, and psychology in America. Offers access to the catalogue of the exhibit and the references and titles consulted. Notes that the original exhibition was sponsored by the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, and the American Psychological Association in Washington D.C.

René Descartes to William James

Mind and Body

Kurt W. Fischer

In this volume leading developmentalists address the question of how children's thinking develops in context by drawing on the theories of Vygotsky, Gibson, and Piaget. Analyses of the ecology and the dynamics of behavior have become popular, emphasizing the particulars of people acting in specific environments and the many complex factors of human body and mind that contribute to action and thought. This volume brings together many of the current efforts to deal with development in this richly ecological, dynamic way. The research reported demonstrates that recent years have produced major shifts in approach. Activities are studied as they naturally occur in everyday contexts. Children's active construction of the world around them is treated as fundamentally social in nature, occurring in families, with peers, and in cultures. Behavior is studied not as something disembodied but within a rich matrix of body, emotion, belief, value, and physical world. Behavior is analyzed as changing dynamically, not only over seconds and minutes, but over hours, days, and years.

Robert H. Wozniak

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