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Joy Doniger Osofsky  

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  • During the 20th century, scientific interest in infancy and early childhood was fueled by four key transformational events. The first was the gradual demise of mechanistic models of behavior and the emergence of worldviews that stressed active, dynamic, contextual, and emergent process models of development. [Source: Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science; Osofsky, Joy Doniger]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-W998602H-X

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