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The chapter is in *The Development of Children.* I no longer have a workable word file of it I am afraid -- and it was a general textbook, not a CHAT monograph, so perhaps of limited use. mike On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com> wrote: > Mike, is the 1983 book you are referring to below the Handbook on Child > Development, Vol 1, 1983, ed by P Mussen, et al? > > The chapter on lifespan development sounds interesting. > > What has been published from a CHAT perspective on that? > > - Steve > > > > > > On Aug 29, 2010, at 6:12 PM, mike cole wrote: > > There is some interesting writing on cultural variations in the transition >> referred to currently as >> emerging adulthood, Steve. Our introductory developmental book published >> in >> 1983 had a chapter devoted to sketching out a lifespan developmental >> psychology. Unfortunately, that chapter was cut by the publishers because >> it >> made the book too long. Its ripe for the picking, Steve, as you point out. >> >> The version of stage theory Lerner adopts renders culture irrelevant to >> the >> process of development. >> It is this aspect of Piagetian theory that evokes the conclusion that >> Piaget's is a purely biological process and this aspect of his theory that >> energizes many neo-Piagetians as well. >> mike >> >> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com> >> wrote: >> >> My take on Arnett's and other's proposal - that there is "developing >>> adult" >>> developmental stage - analogous, as the article describes, to the >>> discovery >>> of the developmental stage "adolescence" by Stanley Hall in 1904 - is >>> that >>> this is the beginning of extending developmental psychology as a >>> discipline >>> into the study of adulthood, which is long overdue. Here, as in many >>> other >>> places, CHAT has marvelous opportunities to shed light. My own thinking >>> is >>> that adults, like children, also have their "stages" of development, >>> although not the kind of rigid stages that Richard Lerner describes. >>> Page >>> 8, where Lerner is quoted to counterbalance Arnett, is not a bad place to >>> begin the article, for those wanting to browse. Says Lerner: “The core >>> idea >>> of classical stage theory is that all people — underscore ‘all’ — pass >>> through a series of qualitatively different periods in an invariant and >>> universal sequence in stages that can’t be skipped or reordered ...” I >>> think CHAT can come up with a better way of understanding adult >>> development >>> than that ... >>> >>> - Steve >>> >>> >>> >>> On Aug 29, 2010, at 1:10 PM, mike cole wrote: >>> >>> This article takes up transition to adulthood. Among the things that I >>> >>>> found >>>> interesting in it was Lerner's position on stages. Reminiscent of >>>> Tolman's >>>> argument with Lerner in his article. 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