1. Issues and questions; 2. A brief history lesson; 3. The proxy debate: a primer on methodology and analysis; 4. A classic debate; 5. A new debate; 6. So what?; 7. Now what?
Dale Goldhaber reframes the nature-nurture debates, providing fresh insight into old and persistent questions of human behavior and development.
Dale Goldhaber is Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Vermont. In 2010, he received the John Dewey Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Education and Social Services. Professor Goldhaber is the author of Theories of Human Development: Integrative Perspectives and Life-Span Human Development in addition to numerous articles related to human development and early childhood education.
"...offers an excellent historical introduction to the debates and
as such deserves a wide readership among biologists and
psychologists alike."
--Johan J. Bolhuis, Utrecht University, SCIENCE
"...successfully argues that a synthesis of the two holistic
perspectives is necessary in order to understand the nature of
human behavior and thereby finally resolve the debate.... Highly
recommended..."
--R.B. Stewart Jr., Oakland University, CHOICE
"...this book provides a useful review of the history of thought
about the different influences on human development that might well
provide the basis for an interesting undergraduate course..."
--Dr. Susan E. F. Chipman, PsycCRITIQUES
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