Stability and Change in Development: A Study of Methodological Reasoning - Hardcover

9780803938076: Stability and Change in Development: A Study of Methodological Reasoning

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803938071 ISBN 13: 9780803938076

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1991

Stability and Change in Development brings together an international group of developmental specialists to explore the major methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of development with the aim of integrating these heterogenous approaches. Each contributor either summarizes a major methodological perspective within developmental psychology (such as developmental mechanisms, developmental differences that vary between individuals, and developmental changes that are shared by most people), or provides a commentary that enlarges or differentiates the preceding contributor′s summary. By examining the inherent biases that shape the dominant methodological approaches to development, this book offers unique insights into how new methods could be used for studying development. Appropriate for researchers and students in methodology and development, Stability and Change in Development will change how development is viewed and studied.

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About the Author

Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. And of The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology (2012). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in Germany for his interdisciplinary work on human development, and Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.