Reviews for Development in infancy

The average rating for Development in infancy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-04-26 00:00:00 James Fletcher The more I read this text the more I asked do these researchers even LIKE studying infants?!? I swear just about every single chapter (or several times in a chapter) they discussed how difficult infants are to study. I think we all inherently understand that infants cannot articulate their understanding of their environment say it once and move on! It covered EVERYTHING you could ever ask about infancy without being a PhD in any one specific area but it sure felt like that was the goal per chapter. That and did we mention infants don't make good test subjects?!? Seriously we got it!

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-11 00:00:00 Hilda Mills A fascinating take on the presence (and occasionally the meaningful absence) of the police in Victorian novels, this book argues that our thinking, actions, and even identity are all controlled by external forces that either police us with the forces of the law and the state or get us to police ourselves with the forces of norms, respectability, and self-control. Miller takes for granted that his reader has at least a passing familiarity with the novels he analyzes, which means the chapters on novels I have read (Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, The Woman in White) were significantly easier to follow than the chapters on novels I haven't read (The Moonstone, Bleak House, Barchester Towers). Miller's explicit engagement with other scholars is almost entirely relegated to footnotes, which makes the body of his text seem ostensibly less academic, when in actuality it is highly academic but with references that are often apparent only to those who are already in the know. The best parts of the book are when Miller expands from thinking about the policing happening within the novels the policing happening between the novel and the reader. Novels train readers to look for and look up to the police, but novels also train readers to police themselves. Our own reading habits become as much a police force as the officers of the state.