✦ LIBER ✦
Alice B. Smuts and John W. Hagen, Eds. History and research in child development. Chicago: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Serial No. 211, Vol. 50, Nos. 4-5. ix + 163 pp. $14.50 (Reviewed by William Kessen)
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
Eight papers and several notes, a baker's dozen authors, the Monograph subtitles its spendiferous heading "In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Society.'' And so it is, in at least two ways more consequent than a birthday party. The collection, a selection from papers given at a convention held in 1983, marks yet again the mounting concern of psychologists, perhaps of social scientists more generally, about the past-the past of their subject matter, the past of their methods, and the past of their disciplinary organizations. Surely the concern and the appended writing of papers