Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice.
Bridging childhood studies, pedagogy and educational theory, critical psychology, and postcolonial studies, this book reads the role and functions of ‘the child’ as both cultural motif and as embodied life condition through the work of Frantz Fanon.
How does developmental psychology connect with the developing world? In other words: what is the political economy of childhood, and how is this affectively organized?... Læs mere
In this vital volume, Erica Burman presents a synthesis of her work developed over the past decade. Building from her pathbreaking critiques of... Læs mere