Value Presuppositions in Theories of Human Development [Paperback]

...the volume is interesting and thought provoking...The conference format of the contributions undoubtedly contributes to the playful and erudite nature of the discourse reflected in the book. Readers will find themselves in the middle of many well- or little-known thinkers of the past and present, all of whom have something to say about the values involved in human psychology.
—Contemporary Psychology

Chapter 1 The Question of Moral and Social Development, Richard J. Bernstein; Chapter 2 Value Presuppositions of Developmental Theory, Jerome Bruner; Chapter 3 Remapping Development: The Power of Divergent Data, Carol Gilligan; Chapter 4 Presuppositions in Developmental Inquiry, Jerome Kagan; Chapter 5 Value Presuppositions in Theories of Human Development, Bernard Kaplan; Chapter 6 On the Creation and Transformation of Norms of Human Development, Marx W. Wartofsky; Chapter 7 General Discussion; Chapter 8 Concluding Comments;Leonard Cirillo, Seymour WapnerFirst published in 1986. The chapters and discussions presented in this volume derive from the conference, Value presuppositions in theories of human development, sponsored by the Heinz Werner Institute, Clark University, on June 10-11, 1983. The conference included both psychologists and philosophers and mainly concerned those assumptions about what ought to be that enter into the ways that investigators in the human sciences construe developmentUS? 1986 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.