Development of Person-Context Relations

ISBN-13: 9780805815689 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 268 str.

Thomas A. Kindermann; Jaan Valsiner

Opis

This volume is an exploration of the idea that how we describe and explain human development will be closely tied to an understanding of what contexts are, how individuals and contexts become influential for one another, and what contexts do to, and with, individuals.

Recenzje

"This volume focuses on the dynamic relations that exist bewteen individuals and their environment, and the impact of this interchange on human developmental processes."
—CHOICE

"This volume represents an ambitious attempt to outline a developmental psychology for the 21st century, one more in tune with the manifold complexity of humans-changing-within- changing contexts.
—Contemporary Psychology

Spis treści

Contents: T.A. Kindermann, J. Valsiner, Introduction: Individual Development, Changing Contexts, and the Co-Construction of Person-Context Relations in Human Development. Part I:Toward a Framework for the Study of Developing Person-Context Relations: Pragmatic, Theoretical, and Methodological Issues. R.M. Lerner, Developing Individuals Within Changing Contexts: Implications of Developmental Contextualism for Human Development Research, Policy, and Programs. W. Thorngate, Accounting for Person-Context Relations and Their Development. J. Valsiner, Processes of Development, and Search for Their Logic: An Introduction to Herbst's Co-Genetic Logic. D.P. Herbst, What Happens When We Make a Distinction: An Elementary Introduction to Co-Genetic Logic. Part II:Empirical Approaches to the Study of Developing Person-Context Relations. A. Claar, Understanding the Economic Framework: Children's and Adolescents' Conceptions of Economic Inequality. G. Trommsdorff, Person-Context Relations as Developmental Conditions for Empathy and Prosocial Action: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. A. von Eye, K. Kreppner, C. Spiel, H. Weßels, Life Events' Spacing and Order in Individual Development. M.L. Batchelder, Adolescents' Adaptation to Structural Changes in Family Relationships With Parental Divorce: A Combinatorial Model. T.A. Kindermann, Distinguishing "Buddies" From "Bystanders": The Study of Children's Development Within Natural Peer Contexts. T.A. Kindermann, J. Valsiner, Epilogue: Directions for the Study of Developing Person-Context Relations.

O autorze

Edited by Kindermann, Thomas A.; Valsiner, Jaan