...Ian Moll Contemporary writings on Vygotsky have not given adequate attention to his particular recognition of natural constraints in cognitive development. This article examines his notion of two main lines of psychological development – the natural and the cultural – in the light of contemporary...

... attributes involved in the orthogenetic principle. These descriptions are accounted for by two types of explanation. Predetermined epigenetic conceptions stress that the bases of the changes characterizing development arise from nature variables, and that nurture variables serve only to facilitate or inhibit...

...W.F. Overton This essay inquires into the major conceptual features of the nature nurture issue and explores theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions which derive from the conceptual. It is maintained that the most basic issues are reflections of a paradigm clash between opposing world...

.... Modernity Moral development Multicultural education Nature Postmodernity Social science Universality Paper Human Development 1999;42:92 108 Reinstating Modernity in Social Science Research or The Status of Bullwinkle in a Post-Postmodern Era Peter H. Kahn, Jr.a Orlando Lourençob aColby College...