Teaching article: Notes for a science of human development

Abstract

We consider that the generalized discourse on human development is a mixed bag: it is immense, it is heterogeneous and it is disjointed. Everything is supposed to be in relation to everything (and the “butterfly effect” is used), but the relationship only seems to be one of proximity: it is the relationship that gives all development terms and topics the pile-up in the drawer that it contains them. It is the result of a description that aims to exhibit everything that is in the wide world, overwhelming and overwhelming information due to its breadth that exceeds the capacity for analysis due to the heterogeneity of the elements collected (most of them without their own definition). And, above all, we are assured, as if to guarantee that human development is about, that, at the center, there is the human being.