Adolescents Psychological Development Rationality, Morality, and Identity

Name: Adolescents Psychological Development Rationality, Morality, and Identity
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ISBN: 9780805828580

ISBN-10: 0805828583

ISBN-13: 9780805828580

Edition: 1999

Authors: David Moshman

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This advanced text presents a constructivist approach to the development of rationality, morality, and identity in adolescence and early adulthood. It provides a review, long overdue in the developmental literature of post-Piagetian approaches to adolescent cognition, examining classic theories and current research in these three domains. In addition, it highlights the capacity of constructivist theorizing to address issues of human diversity and the implications of a constructivist perspective for secondary education. Accessible even to students with no background in psychology, this book will also be of interest to scholars who study the development of rationality, morality, and/or…

Book details

List price: $24.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

DAN STONEnbsp; is Professor of Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He has published widely on interpretationsnbsp;of the Holocaust, comparative genocide, history of anthropology, the cultural politics of the right, and philosophy of history. His books include History, Memory andnbsp;Mass Atrocity: Essays on the Holocaust and Genocide (2006) and Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History (2007, co-edited with Richard H. King).



Preface


Acknowledgments



Development, Psychology, and Adolescence



Piaget's Theory of Formal Operations



The Nature of Rationality



The Construction of Rationality


Conclusion: From Rationality to Morality



Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development


Conclusion



The Nature of Morality



The Construction of Morality


Conclusion: Moral Rationality and Moral Identity



Erikson's Theory of Identity Formation



The Nature of Identity



The Construction of Identity


Conclusion



Pluralist Rational Constructivism: A Metatheory of Psychological Development


Conclusion



Rationality and Liberty in Secondary Education


Conclusion


References


Author Index


Subject Index