Representing Development

<p><em>Representing Development</em> presents the different social representations that have formed the idea of development in Western thinking over the past three centuries. Offering an acute perspective on the current state of developmental science and providing constructive insights into future pathways, the book<em> </em>draws together twelve contributors with a variety of multidisciplinary and international perspectives to focus upon development in fields including biology, psychology and sociology. </p><p>Chapters and commentaries in this volume present a variety of perspectives surrounding social representation and development, addressing their contemporary enactments and reflecting on future theoretical and empirical directions. The first section of the book provides an historical account of early representations of development that, having come from life science, has shaped the way in which developmental science has approached development. Section two focuses upon the contemporary issues of developmental psychology, neuroscience and developmental science at large. The final section offers a series of commentaries pointing to the questions opened by the previous chapters, looking to outline the future lines of developmental thinking. </p><p>This book will be of particular interest to child psychologists, educational psychologists and sociologists or historians of science, as well as academics and students interested in developmental and life sciences.</p> <p>Introduction - Going Backwards to Move Forward: Understanding the shortcomings of Developmental Science <strong>Part 1: Emerging Representations of Development</strong> Goethe and Werner: From Morphology to Orthogenetic Principle Making Sense of Self-Completing Wholes: Epistemological travels of Hans Driesch The Need to Bridge Concepts of Development in the Life Sciences<em> <strong> </strong></em><strong>Part 2: Study of Development in its Move to the Twenty-first Century</strong> The Passion of Bob Cairns: Creating Developmental Science The Loss of Piaget as a Symptom: The issue of development in contemporary cognitive psychology. Neuroscience: Can it Become Developmental? Socio-developmental Aspects of Apprenticeship: The Case of Musical Tuition <strong>Part 3: Representing What is Yet to Happen: Ideas for New Pathways into Developmental Science</strong> On the "Ganzheit" and Stratification of the Mind: The Emergence of Heinz Werner’s Developmental Theory Reconsidering Equipotentiality: Agency and the Directions of Development Observations on Karl and Charlotte Bühler’s Perspective of Development The Dangerous Look of Development and Developmental Science Knowledge in Mind: Piaget's Epistemology Time is of the Essence: From the Estimation of Single Points to the Description of Functions Reprise in Musical Tuition: Hints on the Helical Nature of Development General Conclusion - Representing Development: Pasts, Presents, Futures</p>