In: A Critical Introduction to Psychology ISBN: 978-1-53616-491-6
Editor: Robert K. Beshara © 2019 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Chapter 8
BEYOND DEVELOPMENT AND MORALITY:
ENTANGLEMENTS OF LIFE
AS POLITICAL PRAXIS
Kathleen S. G. Skott-Myhre*
Department of Psychology, University of West Georgia,
Carrollton, GA, US
“The project of prefiguring minds and bodies capable of
revolutionary social change and the transformation of structures and
relations of oppression remains as pressing as ever. But we will not find
the answers in developmental psychology, now or ever.” (Burman,
1994/2016, p. 286)It has been nearly forty years since Carol Gilligan (1982/1993)
challenged Lawrence Kohlberg’s masculinist frameworks for moral
development, a challenge that was taken up by Erica Burman (1994/2016)
with the publication of her feminist critique of developmental psychology.
*Corresponding Author’s Email: [email protected]