Developmental Psychology: How Nature and Nurture Interact

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Psychology is caught in the midst of a paradigm change. Models of multiple, interactive influence have replaced passive, single cause explanations. But they have done so without any popular realization that a properly interactive psychology entails the deconstruction of the traditional forms of cause, nature and nurture, and the adoption of an ecological, dynamic systems view based upon principles of self-organization. This text explains in an accessible way why psychology must change and sets out the principles of the radical alternative; it is intended for advanced undergraduate courses in developmental psychology.

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'Keith Richardson has an obvious gift for conveying difficult ideas in a reader-friendly fashion... This is a very important and timely contribution to theory-building in developmental psychology at both undergraduate and graduate level.' - Brian Hopkins, Professor of Psychology, Lancaster University 'Authoritative in his approach, the author has a strong grasp of a wide range of theories and research, and I found his treatment of them to be clear, coherent and consistent. It is a text which...will be accessible to second and third year students, and immensely helpful to them for its presentation of a perspective which is not always easily grasped at this level, but which, in one way or another, informs much recent work in developmental psychology.' - Gerard Duveen, University of Cambridge

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DR KEITH RICHARDSON is Associate Lecturer on the Open University course in Child Development and Senior Lecturer in Education at Whitefield Schools and Centre, London, incorporating liaison with Kingston University on four postgraduate diplomas.