Development - Christopher Goodey

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Résumé :
This book traces the historical roots of psychology's 'developmental idea' back to Christian beliefs from the past two millennia.

Biographie:
Christopher Goodey is a former lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at the Open University and the author of A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability': The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe (2011).

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Development and the origin of psychological concepts; 2. The history of Christianity and the first principles of development: linear time, interiority, structure; 3. The history of education: rearing the elect child; 4. Pascal on the ordering of human time; 5. The normalization of the elect: Locke to Montesquieu; 6. The coining of a developmental theory: Leibniz to Bonnet; 7. Emile: Rousseau's well-ordered developer; 8. Nature versus nurture and cognitive ability testing: historical sketches; Postscript: further targets for historical research.