TY - BOOK AU - Burman Erica TI - Deconstructing Developmental Psychology SN - 9780415395625 PY - 2008/// PB - Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group N2 - This book 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. Preface, Acknowledgements, Constructing the Subject, Researching Infancy, Attributing Sociality, Discourses of the Child, Models and Mudles: Dilemmas of Childhood, Social Development and the Structure of Caring, Familiar Assumptions, Bonds of Love and Dilemmas of Attachments, Involving Fathers, Developing Communication, Language Talk, Discourses of Caregiving Talk, Language and Power in Developmental Research, Cognitive Development: The Making of Rationality, Piaget and Vygotsky and Developmental Psychology, Child - Centered Education: Shifts and Continuities, Morality and the Goals of Development, References, Author and Subject Index ER -