The Context of Development. A main recent trend in the study of human development is the increasing recognition of the importance of context in which this development takes place. The development context expands from the immediate home environment of the child all the way to the most encompassing culture. This growing emphasis on context is, on the one hand, a natural outgrowth of the early environmental perspective in psychology and education, which can be traced back to the enlightenment and the teachings of John Locke and J.J.Rousseau and then to John Dewey and the early developmental and comparative psychology of Baldwin, Novikoff and von Bertalanffy. On the other hand, however, it has ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

;

See all results. Or, try our Advanced Search.

We're searching over:

• 60 million articles
• 3,500 publications