Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- 1 Seeing Children in Context
- 2 Concepts of Development
- 3 Theoretical Foundations of Child Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
1 - Seeing Children in Context
from Part 1 - The Study of Human Development
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Trends and issues
- List of Family life-cycles
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note to the Student
- Note to the Instructor
- How to use the CD-ROM
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Study of Human Development
- 1 Seeing Children in Context
- 2 Concepts of Development
- 3 Theoretical Foundations of Child Development
- Part 2 Conception and Birth
- Part 3 Infancy
- Part 4 Toddlerhood
- Part 5 The Pre-school Years
- Part 6 Middle Childhood
- Part 7 Adolescence
- Part 8 Studying Human Development
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- STUDENT FEEDBACK FORM
Summary
… Still within the little children's eyes
I sought no more that after which I strayed
In face of man or maid;
But still within the little children's eyes
Seems something, something that replies,
They at least are for me, surely for me!
I turned me to them very wistfully
But just as their young eyes grew sudden fair
With dawning answers there
Their angel plucked them from me by the hair.
Francis Thompson, ‘The Hound of Heaven’KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
Developmental psychology
‘Gazing’ at children
proprietal
Postfigurative, configurative, prefigurative
Paradigm
Empiricism
Positivism
The experiential child
The iniquitous child
The virtuous child
The competent infant
Mechanistic, organismic, behaviourist, psychodynamic, humanistic, constructivist
Introduction
Since the first edition of this textbook was written and published in 1993 it is readily apparent to me that general and academic interest in the study of child development has increased exponentially. Notwithstanding this, a quick glance in the relevant sections of the local library or bookstore will show that through the ages children have been the subject of description by poets, novelists, philosophers and playwrights. Dietrich Tiedermann is generally acknowledged by historians of child psychology as a pioneer in the field of systematic description in child development. In 1787 Tiedermann published a study of his own child, predicting that it would soon be followed by many others. True to his prediction, the late nineteenth century was witness to a growing interest in child and adolescent development. The latter part of the twentieth century has in many ways produced a veritable harvest of knowledge regarding child, adolescent and family development.
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- Child, Adolescent and Family Development , pp. 3 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002