Re: [xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: What Is It About 20-Somethings?

[Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com>]

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. Lerner is the "mr  
> > > contextualist" of
> > > developmental psychology, which really makes his arguments about  
> > > stages
> > > contradictory to me.
> > >
> > > and you?
> > > mike
> > >
> > >
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> > > * MAGAZINE *   | August 22, 2010
> > > * What Is It About 20-Somethings?
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