Beyond Heredity And Environment: Myrtle Mcgraw And The Maturation Controversy

by Thomas C Dalton

Overview

This collection includes some of McGraw's most cogent work, including five previously unpublished essays that address misconceptions and clarify her principles of development. The editors document McGraw's little-known collaboration in the 1930s with John Dewey and several other notable scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367009090
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword: Myrtle McGraw's Nascent and Pioneering Use of Embryology to Understand Human Development — Preface — Reconsidering McGraw's Contribution to Developmental Psychology — Insights and Blunders — Introduction: My First Science Teacher — Perspectives of Infancy and Early Childhood — Professional and Personal Blunders in Child Development — The Maturation Controversy — Introduction: Johnny and Jimmy and the Maturation Controversy: Popularization, Misunderstanding, and Setting the Record Straight — Later Development of Children Specially Trained During Infancy: Johnny and Jimmy at School Age — Signals of Growth — The Experimental Twins — Infant Motor Development: A Study of the Effect of Special Exercises — The Problem of Using Secondary Sources: Elkind's Blunders — Coghill, Neuroembryology, and the Principles of Development — Introduction: McGraw's Alternative to Gesell's Maturationist Theory — The Function of Reflexes in the Behavior Development of Infants — Behavior Development — General Principles of Growth — Individual Development — Let Babies Be Our Teachers — Psychobiology and the Interdisciplinary Study of Infant Development — Introduction: The Developmental Psychobiology of Myrtle McGraw — Basic Concepts and Procedures in a Study of Behavior Development — Maturation of Behavior — An Open Letter to Parents of Young Infants — Challenges for Students of Infancy — Epilogue: A Developmental Neurologist's "Homage"

Editorial Reviews

A collection of essays and lectures by pioneer of child development McGraw (1899-1988), including early works not easily available and six previously unpublished. They throw much light on her little-known collaboration with John Dewey in the 1930s, and explain her conception of development as a continuous interaction between neural and behavioral growth and not reducible to either heredity or environment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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