enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Satires (Juvenal) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satires_(Juvenal)

    Juvenal claims as his purview, the entire gamut of human experience since the dawn of history. Quintilian—in the context of a discussion of literary genres appropriate for an oratorical education—claimed that, unlike so many literary and artistic forms adopted from Greek models, "satire at least is all ours" (satura quidem tota nostra est). [6]

  3. Development theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_theory

    Human development theory is a theory which uses ideas from different origins, such as ecology, sustainable development, feminism and welfare economics. It wants to avoid normative politics and is focused on how social capital and instructional capital can be deployed to optimize the overall value of human capital in an economy.

  4. Developmental stage theories - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_stage_theories

    The theory of Michael Commons' model of hierarchical complexity is also relevant. The description of stages in these theories is more elaborate and focuses on underlying mechanisms of information processing rather than on reasoning as such. In fact, development in information processing capacity is invoked to explain the development of reasoning.

  5. Juvenal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenal

    If the theory that connects these two Juvenals is correct, then the inscription does show that Juvenal's family was reasonably wealthy, and that, if the poet really was the son of a foreign freedman, then his descendants assimilated into the Roman class structure more quickly than typical.

  6. Adult development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_development

    The theory considers the lifelong accumulation of developmental additions and subtractions, with the relative proportion of gains to losses diminishing over an individual's lifetime. [14] According to this theory, life span development has multiple trajectories (positive, negative, stable) and causes (biological, psychological, social, and ...

  7. Arnold J. Sameroff - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Sameroff

    He researches and writes about developmental theory and the factors that contribute to mental health and psychopathology, especially related to risk and resilience. Together with Michael Chandler he is known for developing the transactional model of development. [1] [2] He is one of the founders of the field of developmental psychopathology. [3]

  8. Continuum concept - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_concept

    The continuum concept is an idea, coined by Jean Liedloff in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, that human beings have an innate set of expectations (which Liedloff calls the continuum) that our evolution as a species has designed us to meet in order to achieve optimal physical, mental, and emotional development and adaptability.

  9. Menippean satire - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menippean_satire

    The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities. [1] It has been broadly described as a mixture of allegory, picaresque narrative, and satirical commentary. [2]