Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural Processes

ISBN-13: 9780415224475 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str.

Peijie B. Wang; Catherine Raeff; Janette B. Benson

Opis

This book addresses how individual, social and cultural factors intersect during development by bringing together an international group of scholars with diverse theoretical perspectives who conduct research in varied cultural contexts. The first section of the book focuses on how wider contexts of development are structured through interactions among individual, social and cultural processes. Specific chapters in this section focus on how the wider cultural context is constituted and enacted by individuals, including children and their caregivers, as they engage in social interactions. This section also includes analyses of how social contexts are dynamically constructed and negotiated as children actively participate in concrete social interactions. The second section of the book focuses on how social interactions and cultural values shape specific aspects of development, including the development of object manipulation, future orientations and self-conceptions. The book ends with an integrative analysis of how infant experiences form the foundations of adult relational self-conceptions.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Context of Developments 1. Interaction and Development Accounting for Emergence Jaan Valsiner 2. Patterns of Culturally Meaningful Activity: Linking Parents' Ideas and Parent-Child Interactions Catherine Raeff 3. Environmental Chaos, Development, and Parenting Across Cultures Theodore D. Wachs and Feyza Corapci 4. Play as a Context for the Socialization of Interpersonal Relationships M. Christina Ramirez 5. Context and the Dynamic Construal of Meaning in Early Childhood Nancy Budwig 6. The Multiple Agendas of Intersubjectivity in Children's Group Writing Activity Chikako Toma and James V. Wertsch Part 2: Developing Through Culturally Shaped Social Interactions 7. Object Manipulation in Context Jeffery J. Lockman 8. The Social and Cultural Context of the Development of Future Orientation Janette B. Benson, Ayelet Talmi, and Marshall M. Haith 9. Level this, Level that: That Place of Culture in the Construction of the Self Michael J. Chandler and Bryan W. Sokol Part 3: Final Thoughts: Infancy as the Foundation for Intersecting individual, Social, and Cultural Processes 10.Lessons form our Infancy: Relationships to Self, Other, and Nature Alan Fogel

O autorze

Catherine Raeff completed her Ph.D. at Clark University in 1993, and is currently an associate professor in the psychology department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her work on parent-child interactions and self-development now focuses on how cultural values shape developing modes of independence and connectedness.
Janette B. Benson is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver, where she is a Sturm Professor of Excellence in Education. She has co-edited with Marshall Haith, Rob Roberts and Bruce Pennington, The Development of Future-Oriented Processes, and co-authored with Marshall Haith the infant cognition chapter in the last edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology.