[Xmca-l] Re: Development of adults

[Robert Lake]

Here is one of the books I have on this topic.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mature_Mind.html?id=JdqOYdOZY3cC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false

Robert

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Charles Bazerman <
bazerman@education.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> There have been a number of studies about adult writing development
> intersecting with other kinds of identity, emotional, civic and
> professional development. Deborah Brandt's two books based on retrospective
> interviews, Literacy in American Lives and The Rise of Writing, are good
> places to start.  David Barton's ethnographic studies in the UK are also
> important.  Many others have followed, including studies by Kate Vieira who
> focuses on immigrants, documentation, and community life.
> Chuck Bazerman
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Wolff-Michael Roth <
> wolffmichael.roth@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There is a recent study following people from age 14 to 77 suggesting
> > personality changes continuously into old age:
> > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5144810/
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > Wolff-Michael Roth, Lansdowne Professor
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > --------------------
> > Applied Cognitive Science
> > MacLaurin Building A567
> > University of Victoria
> > Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2
> > http://web.uvic.ca/~mroth <http://education2.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/>
> >
> > New book: *The Mathematics of Mathematics
> > <https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/new-
> > directions-in-mathematics-and-science-education/the-
> > mathematics-of-mathematics/>*
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 8:30 AM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > The first and second editions of our textbook had a chapter on aging
> > beyond
> > > youth, Ulvi. It made the book too long for US quarter systems in
> > > universities and
> > > was cut as a result. The chapter begins with a thought from Milan
> Kundera
> > > that resonated with me when it was written 30 years ago and rings true
> to
> > > me approaching 80:
> > >
> > > “We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with
> > the
> > > experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood
> without
> > > knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be
> married,
> > > and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading
> > for:
> > > the old are innocent children innocent of their old age. In that sense,
> > > man's world is the planet of inexperience”- Milan Kundera, *The art of
> > the
> > > novel.*
> > >
> > >
> > > I'll leave the question of whether this thought implies that
> development
> > is
> > > a life long
> > >
> > > process or not to the experts.
> > >
> > >
> > > mike
> > >
> > >
> > > PS- You might find the work of Paul Baltes and his students
> interesting.
> > He
> > > was, in his way, a cultural-historical psychologist. I wonder, who is
> > doing
> > > work on lifespan
> > >
> > > psychology in Russia these days?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Ulvi İçil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can anyone propose one or two good books on develeopment beyond
> > > adolescence
> > > > please, a similar one to mike's development of children?
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Ulvi
> > > >
> > >
> >
>



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Robert Lake  Ed.D.
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Social Foundations of Education
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2017
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