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"Something instructive occurred in the process of entitling the present collection. Both editor and publisher sought a simple and succinct rubric for the various pieces of work. But they rapidly and reluctantly reached the consensus that, by either intellectual or marketing criteria, the inserƯ tion of the adjective "psychological" to qualify the noun "development" was a communicative necessity. Much to the chagrin of the developƯ mental psychologist, the term development still connotes-to the world at large as well as the general community of publishers, librarians, and computer archivists-the modernization of nation states. Inside and outside the university, I find that, when asked, "What are you inƯ terested in?" I am not at liberty to reply, "The concept of development," without being absorbed immediately into a discussion of Third World studies. The approach of the present volume should be taken as an exhortation to psychologists to take the genealogy of "development'' seriously. The history of the discipline is not so different from the histoƯ ry of the word and, as we shall discover, the concern with developmenƯ tal progress cannot easily be separated from the urge for domin

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Author

John M. Broughton (auth.), John M. Broughton (eds.)

Publisher

Springer US : Imprint : Springer

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306424311

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Social_sciences