Review: Erica Burman (2008). Deconstructing Developmental Psychology

Abstract: We here offer a review of Erica BURMAN's "Deconstructing Developmental Psychology" (2nd ed.) in the form of a critical reading of the book in so far as it relates to matters of knowledge and power, the truthing of particular claims, and to critical pedagogy. We express some concern about the vulnerability of students in mainstream higher psychology education contexts reading this textbook who might be penalised for resisting, as this book encourages them to do, the prescribed accounts of psychology which they are more generally required to digest and regurgitate. However we argue that the first two chapters alone provide the reader with a whole critical psychology education, which does more than touch on imperialism, colonisation and patriarchy and brilliantly links the inventions of psychology to the major issues of our time. We argue that one of the strongest features of the book is the way in which it addresses oppressive discourses which are reproduced in developmental psycholo.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1411

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Review: Erica Burman (2008). Deconstructing Developmental Psychology ; volume:11 ; number:1 ; day:26 ; month:11 ; year:2009 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 11, Heft 1 (26.11.2009)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Nic Giolla Easpaig, Bróna ; Fryer, David

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-11.1.1411
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1001127
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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