Development : the history of a psychological concept /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goodey, C. F. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Subjects:	Developmental psychology > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Development and the origin of psychological concepts
The history of Christianity and the first principles of development: linear time, interiority, structure
The history of education: rearing the elect child
Pascal on the ordering of human time
The normalization of the elect: Locke to Montesquieu
The coining of a developmental theory: Leibniz to Bonnet
Emile: Rousseau's well-ordered developer
Nature versus nurture and cognitive ability testing: historical sketches
Postscript: Further targets for historical research.