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Chapter 41 - Threads and Themes of Development: Some Semi-Random Suggestions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2025

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Frank Kessel
Edited by
Frank Kessel
Frank Kessel
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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Summary

As both a concentrated commentary and an invitation-of-sorts to explore all the engaging essays in this collection, and their intriguing interconnections, as well as possible implications for current and future students and scholars, I suggest several overarching themes, for example, serendipity, mentors-colleagues-students, institutional infrastructure, inter/trans-disciplinarity, critical global science, and then sketch the stages of a nonlinear career that, in more and less direct ways, is the source of such a thematic view.

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serendipitymentors-colleagues-studentsinstitutional infrastructureinter/trans-disciplinarityGrand TheoryPiagetBronfenbrennercultureWEIRDcritical global sciencemoral science
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Pillars of Developmental Psychology
Recollections and Reflections
 , pp. 468 - 490
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Bronfenbrenner, U., Kessel, F. S., Kessen, W., & White, S. (1986). Toward a critical social history of developmental psychology: A propaedeutic discussion. American Psychologist, 41(11)1218–1230.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kessel, F. S. (Ed.). (1988). The Development of Language and Language Researchers: Essays in Honor of Roger Brown. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
Kessel, F. S. (Ed.). (1995). Psychology, Science, and Human Affairs: Essays in Honor of William Bevan. Reissued, Routledge Psychology Revivals, 2019.Google Scholar
Kessel, F. S. (2009). Research on child development: Historical perspectives. In Shweder, R. A. et al. (Eds.), The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (pp. 828–833). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Kessel, F. S., Bornstein, M. H., & Sameroff, A. J. (Eds.). (1991). Contemporary Constructions of the Child: Essays in Honor of William Kessen. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum. Reissued, Routledge Psychology Revivals, 2022.Google Scholar
Kessel, F. S., Rosenfield, P. L., & Anderson, N. B. (Eds.). (2008). Interdisciplinary Research: Case Studies from Health and Social Science (2nd ed.) New York: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kessel, F. S. & Siegel, A. W. (Eds.). (1983). The Child and Other Cultural Inventions. New York: Praeger.Google Scholar

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