Growing Critical: Alternatives to Developmental. Morss, Morss,**

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Growing CriticalAlternatives to Developmental Psychology\nAuthor(s): John R. Morss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032593548, 978-1032593548\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1996, and now with a new preface, Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology, focusing on development. It takes a fresh look at infancy, childhood and adulthood and makes the startling claim that development does not exist.\n\nJohn R. Morss guides the reader from the early critical movements of the 1970s which gave rise to the social construction of development through the wide range of more recent approaches. He looks in turn at Vygotskys social context of development, Harrs social constructionism, Marxist critique of developmental psychology, psychoanalytic interpretations of development, and finally post-structuralist approaches following Foucault and Derrida. He surveys the range of alternative positions in the critica.