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

ISBN-13: 9780415758277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015

Janette Benson; Catherine Raeff

Opis

Several recent analyses have focused on how social and cultural factors shape development, but less well understood are the individual constructive processes involved in this interplay. This volume showcases varied theoretical and empirical approaches to how individual, social and cultural factors shape development, and suggests new directions for future scholarship.

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.