Visions of Aesthetics, the Environment & Development: the Legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill

by Downs; Roger M.

• ISBN13: 9780805810004
• ISBN10: 0805810005
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-07-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Derived from a conference honoring the legacy of Joachim Wohlwill, this volume is designed to reflect as many facets of the late scholar's wide-ranging work as possible. As its title indicates, the book identifies three broad areas in which Wohlwill made significant contributions: art and aesthetics, human-environment interaction, and concepts of development. In each of these areas Wohlwill made seminal contributions, helping to shape, maintain, and even change the direction of research and thought. Specific topics addressed here by his colleagues, students, and contemporaries include: the shape of development, the intermingling of perception and cognition, the balance between innate and acquired processes, the relation between environmental and ecological psychology, the development of the ability to use external representations of the physical environment, and the way world views underpin beliefs about the nature of development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface: Reflections on a Scholar	p. xi
Art and Aesthetics	p. xvii
Aspects of Scientific Discovery: Aesthetics and Cognition	p. 1
The Course of Creative Growth: A Tribute to Joachim Wohlwill	p. 23
The Ecological Approach: A Foundation for Environmental Psychology	p. 87
A Personal Perspective on the Environment and Behavior Field	p. 113
Some Relations Between Developmental and Environmental Psychology: An Organismic-Developmental Systems Perspective	p. 181
The Warp and the Woof of the Developmental Fabric	p. 213
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Developmental Theory and Research Strategies	p. 263
Name Index	p. 313
Subject Index	p. 325
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