Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-381) and index.
Alienation : loss of the student and tales of development -- PART I. The status of growth. Growing -- Three interpretive tales of growth -- -- PART II. The standards of maturity. Maturing -- Interpretive tales of maturing -- -- PART III. The changes of development. A transformative tale of developing -- -- PART IV. Style and development. Tales of style : nomothetic and idiographic -- Solecisms : mistakes and errors -- Production : slow and swift -- The sentence : studio and free -- Organization : closed and progressive -- Remediality : bottom and top -- -- PART V. Sequence and development. Sequencing : two interpretive tales -- A curriculum -- Diagnosis -- Re-action : a consolatory tale