The Harvard Graduate School of
Education
Dynamic
Development Lab
Lab
Philosophy
Welcome
Human activity is
organized, and at the same time people change and vary. Over extended
periods of time and even from day to day and moment to moment, each individual's
actions change systematically as they grow, learn new ways of thinking
and acting, and react emotionally. People's activities form coherent patterns,
and analysis of those patterns provides the foundation for understanding
the dynamics of their stabilities and
variations. Although the variability of activities is enormous and their
complexity vast, systematic analysis of structures or organizations -
patterns of components - gives scientists the tools for finding order
in the variation. This set of assumptions provides the starting points
for dynamic structural analysis of the development of human action and
thought.
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