New Perspectives on Human Development

This book address fundamental questions of human development, revisiting old questions and applying original empirical findings.

This book provides upper level undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty with a valuable resource that addresses fundamental questions of cognitive, social, and language development, applying original empirical data to old questions and providing a new direction for future research in the field.Developmental theorists have struggled with defining the relations among biology, psychology, and sociocultural context, often reducing psychological functions of a person to either biological functioning or the role of sociocultural context - nature or nurture - and considering each area of human development separately. New Perspectives on Human Development addresses fundamental questions of development with a unified approach. It encompasses theory and research on cognitive, social and moral, and language and communicative development, in various stages of life, and explores interdisciplinary perspectives. New Perspectives on Human Development revisits old questions and applies original empirical findings, offering new directions for future research in the field.