Jaan Valsiner, Dankert Vedeler, Tania Zittoun

Human Development in the Life Course

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how individuals develop a unique style or 'melody' of living, beyond physical and social constraints.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9781107562387
• ISBN-10: 1107562384
• Artikelnr.: 42964762

Autorenporträt

Tania Zittoun is a Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: from dispute to collaboration
Introduction: melodies of living
Part I. Time for Development: 1. Solidity of science and fullness of living: a theoretical exposé
2. Imagination and the life course
3. Moving through time: imagination and memory as semiotic processes
4. Models of time for the life course
Part II. Spaces for Development: 5. Social framing of lives: from phenomena to theories
6. Stability and innovation in adults narrating their lives: insights from psychotherapy research
7. Paradoxes of learning
Part III. Beyond Time and Space: Imagination: 8. We are migrants!
9. Playing while being serious: the lifelong game of development - and its tools
10. Playing under the influence: activity contexts in their social functions
11. 'Old age' as living forward
12. Epilogue: the course of life as a melody.