Deconstructing Developmental Psychology

By E. Burman. 2011

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Disabled children’s childhood studies: a distinct approach? (2014, background): “Burman (2007) deconstructs the ‘normal distribution curve’ as a technique that distributes ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ characteristics in a way that appears to have a scientific claim to authority.”
Metacognition in Young Children (2009, background): “Feminist critics such as Erica Burman have highlighted some of the defi ciencies inherent in the developmental perspective and it is worth being aware of these limitations when considering the development of metacognition. Burman (1994) argues that developmental psychology is not simply a benign sci”
Critical autism studies: exploring epistemic dialogues and intersections, challenging dominant understandings of autism (2016, unknown): “Ideas about normative childhood and adulthood impact powerfully, and negatively, on children and adults with autism and their families (see, for example, Burman 2008; O’Dell and Brownlow 2015).”
Poststructuralist theory in practice: Working with ''behaviourally disturbed'' children (2000, background): “A developmental } categorising psychology ful® lled the middle class desire to classify that which it did not understand and to bring it under surveillance in an attempt to control it (Burman, 1994).”
Emancipating play: dis/abled children, development and deconstruction (2010, background): “The link between play, therapy and development is presented almost universally as uncontroversial and unproblematical, and yet, developmental psychology, which underpins child development, has been under sustained attack from a number of sources (Morss 1992; Walkerdine 1993; Burman 2001, 2008).”
Children's Development from a Cultural–Historical Approach: Children's Activity in Everyday Local Settings as Foundation for Their Development (2009, unknown): “Piaget and Erikson's theories have been criticised (i.e., Burman, 1994; Morss, 2001; Riegel, 1975; Walkerdine, 2004; Wartofsky, 1983) for being anchored in specific historical and societal traditions that are not elucidated in their theories.”
Children and creativity: A most (un)likely pair? (2011, background): “Definitions of childhood, as Burman (1994) observes, are always relational in nature, making reference to parents, families, the State, etc.”