Teaching Developmental Psychology as a Theoretical and Philosophical Psychologist
I am currently teaching a childhood developmental psychology course using the textbook Theories of Developmental Psychology (5th ed.) by Patricia H. Miller. This text is unique in that the author takes a theoretical, rather than a categorical (i.e., biological, cognitive, social, etc. development) or chronological (i.e., prenatal to adolescent development), approach to explicating the foundations of and current research trends in developmental psychology. The author’s appro