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Intended as supplemental reading in courses on theories of development, this book augments traditional core texts by providing students with more depth on about two dozen recent and emerging theories that have appeared over the past 20 years. This period has seen a decline of the traditional "grand" theories that attempt to apply to all people all the time in favor of "micro theories" that focus more on individual differences, so a book like this actually points the way toward the future rather than dryly reviewing the past. In addition, the author inspects the changing ways in which the concept of "theory" itself has been interpreted during this period, and he concludes with a chapter suggesting future directions.
Theory Trends
Theory Trends
To help readers understand the historical roots from which the recent theories in Chapters 2 through 12 have grown, this introductory chapter offers a brief sketch of nine influential models of human development that appeared during the 1880–1980 era. The sketch begins with an explanation of what is intended throughout the book by the terms theories, human development, and recent.
For the purpose of this opening chapter, a simple, bare-bones definition of theories should suffice. Subsequently, in the introductions to Parts I and II, I'll describe a number of more complex definitions from recent times. So for now, theory is defined as “a proposal about (a) which components or variables are important for understanding such a phenomenon as human development and (b) how ...
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