A Girl'S Childhood: Psychological Development, Social Change, And The Yale Child Study Center

The contributors to this volume consider the significance of the Yale Child Study Center's notable mid-twentieth century project evaluation of children engaged actively in play, conversation, and reflection about their relations to family members, peers, and the significant adults in their lives (known as the Yale Longitudinal Study) from the perspectives of various disciplines. In the case study that is the primary focus of the book, they offer a compelling view of the way one child came to understand herself in relation to those around her. Her interactions with others reveal an unfolding sense of self and an increasing facility with the "tools" of her gender across the decade of the study, an era characterized by a highly gendered social order and a rapidly changing configuration of social class. Book jacket. 9780300117592 0300117590 326 BOOK Psychology NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xueuBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Deborah Weinstein
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0300117590
• | ISBN-13: 9780300117592