Researching the Child in Developmental Psychology
Short summary:
The study of 'the child' has been, for more than a century, the territory of developmental psychology. In recent decades, the hegemony of developmental theory and methods has ...
Long summary:
The study of 'the child' has been, for more than a century, the territory of developmental psychology. In recent decades, the hegemony of developmental theory and methods has been challenged by critics within the now well-established field of the sociology of childhood that has emerged primarily in Europe in the course of the last two decades (see for example, Corsaro, 1997; James & Prout, 1997; James, Jenks, & Prout, 1998 ; Qvortrop, 1987). Within developmental psychology, some critical voices also emerged (for example, Alldred and Burman, Chapters 10 of this volume; Burman, 1994; Bradley, 1989; Morss, 1996) but these have been few, and the mainstream of research in developmental psychology has taken little note of the criticisms posed from either outside or inside the discipline.
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