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Obukhova L. F.
Two paradigms in child's development studies
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Two scientific paradigms in child's development studies - natural-scientific and cultural-historical - are presented. The author employs the term "paradigm" as a notion mirroring the basis of scientific knowledge in developmental psychology. The author argues that the most important concepts developing in the framework of both paradigms can exist as parallel events and to be quite fruitful but cannot be united into one system because of different bases.

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