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Dialectics, Organicism, and Contextualism

A Rejoinder to Lerner

University of Guelph

Bruce A. Ryan

University of Guelph

Jane Corville-Smith

University of Guelph

Alison Normore

University of Guelph

Bonnie Turner

University of Guelph

In his commentary on the dialectical model offered by Adams, Day, Dyk, Frede, and Rogers, Lerner suggests that dialectical theory be abandoned in favor of developmental contextual theory on the grounds that dialectical theory shares an identity with organicism, a metatheoryfatally flawed with a teleological causality. An examination of the concepts identified by Lerner show that although his reservations concerning organicism appear justified, no compelling reason is given to reject dialectics as an analytical tool within contextualisnm

The Journal of Early Adolescence, Vol. 12, No. 4, 389-395 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0272431692012004003


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