The Observing Eye:A Century of Baby Diaries

Wallace, Doris B.; Franklin, Margery B.; Keegan, Robert T.

doi:10.1159/000278233

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“…Over the first half of the twentieth century, detailed diaries of their own children's behavior stimulated Morgan, Stern, Guillaume, Valentine, and Piaget to propose theoretical accounts of early cognitive development (Wallace et al, 1994). At the same time, Pavlov's seminal work spawned longitudinal studies of classical conditioning with infants in Russia and other Eastern Bloc countries.…”

Section: Early Originsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prenatal and Infant Development: Overview, Current Trends, Future Directions

Lipsitt

Demick

Rovee‐Collier³

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Section: Early Originsmentioning

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Prenatal and Infant Development: Overview, Current Trends, Future Directions

Lipsitt

Demick

Rovee‐Collier³

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Baby diaries were written by educators, evolutionists, philosophers and psychologists, and almost always parents. By the end of the 19th century, a canon of ''scientific'' baby diary literature had been established with important connections to the inauguration of developmental psychology's place in academia (Wallace, Franklin, & Keegan, 1994). The argument given for this paradox is based on the view that parents may provide biased and overly rich descriptions.…”

Section: A Personal Approachmentioning

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A Personal Approach

Weir

Costall

2015

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This study explored the process of taking a personal approach to my son's problems with computer games. As a psychology student, I should have been in a good position to explore the paradoxical emotions and this situation of conflict. Yet I was also aware that relating closely to the people we are studying has long been a taboo even in qualitative research. I nevertheless adopted a collaborative methodology in which I balanced a dual role of parent and researcher. Taking a personal approach, allowing intimate, reciprocal negotiation, I was not only able to put this taboo to the rare empirical test but also achieved an insight that would otherwise have not been available to me. By engaging in dialogue and encouraging the ability to object, a first-person plural (We), position was achieved in which an understanding of this situation developed and has transferred to our everyday lives.

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“…Emma's father, Josiah Wedgwood (who was also Darwin's uncle), had kept a diary of his own children from 1797-1799. Wallace, Franklin, and Keegan (1994) noted that Emma's entries differ from her husband's. Darwin's notes on his children form "a scientific document in the tradition of his other notebooks," while his wife's contribution, following her father's tradition, verges "on the genre of the domestic diary" (Wallace et al, 1994, p. 11).…”

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Darwin's “Natural Science of Babies”

Lorch

Hellal

2010

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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In 1877, the newly founded British journal Mind published two papers on child development. The earlier, by Hippolyte Taine, prompted the second article: an account of his own son's development by the naturalist Charles Darwin. In its turn, Darwin's paper, "A Biographical Sketch of an Infant," influenced others. Diary studies similar to Taine's and Darwin's appeared in Mind from 1878. In addition, the medical profession started to consider normal child language acquisition as a comparison for the abnormal. Shortly before his death in 1882, Darwin continued with his theme, setting out a series of proposals for a program of research on child development with suggested methodology and interpretations. Darwin, whose interest in infants and the developing mind predated his 1877 paper by at least 40 years, sought to take the subject out of the nursery and into the scientific domain. The empirical study of the young child's developing mental faculties was a source of evidence with important implications for his general evolutionary theory. The social status of children in England was the subject of considerable discussion around the time Darwin's 1877 paper appeared. Evolutionary theory was still relatively new and fiercely debated, and an unprecedented level of interest was shown by the popular press in advance of the publication. This article considers the events surrounding the publication of Darwin's article in Mind, the notebook of observations on Darwin's children (1839-1856) that served as its basis, and the research that followed publication of "Biographical Sketch." We discuss the impact this article, one of the first infant psychology studies in English, made on the scientific community in Britain in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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The Observing Eye:A Century of Baby Diaries

Cited by 33 publications

References 13 publications

Prenatal and Infant Development: Overview, Current Trends, Future Directions

Prenatal and Infant Development: Overview, Current Trends, Future Directions

A Personal Approach

Darwin's “Natural Science of Babies”

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