Slee, Phillip T.

Child development theories and critical perspectives / [electronic resource] : Rosalyn H. Shute and Phillip T. Slee. - 2nd ed. - East Sussex ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xii, 297 p.) : ill. - International texts in developmental psychology .

Slee's name appears first on the earlier edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Ways of knowing about development -- 2. From Darwin to DNA : biologically based theories of development -- 3. A rainbow is more than the sum of its colours : beginnings of organicism -- 4. The child as philosopher -- 5. From Oedipus to attachment : the Freudian legacy -- 6. Mechanism : the whole is equal to the sum of its parts -- 7. Dialecticism : the child developing in a social world -- 8. The historic event : contextualism -- 9. Sociocultural influences on development -- 10. Systems theories -- 11. Listening to different voices 1 : feminism and developmental psychology -- 12. Listening to different voices 2 : the voices of children -- 13. Putting it all together : towards theoretical integration -- 14. The theory-practice nexus.

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Child development.
Child psychology.