The Psychology of Child Development: With an Introduction by John Dewey

This book investigates the thought of child psychologists and educators and challenges the classical approach of breaking down a child's mind into a list of faculties. Instead, the author posits that the mind is a unified system best understood through the interactions of the whole. The book argues that the classic system of dissection popular with psychologists and educators has overlooked a great deal of information about children and their development. The author also argues that the attempt to study isolated elements of a child's life is scientifically flawed, because we must have as nearly as possible the complete setting of an act before we are entitled to say what it is or what it means.Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.This text has been digitally restored from a historical edition. Some aesthetic errors may persist, however it has been deemed that any such will not detract from the work's significant historical value.The digital edition of all books may be viewed on our website before purchase.