Culture and Human Development [Paperback]

This major new textbook by Jaan Valsiner focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Intended for students from undergraduate level upwards, the book provides a wide-ranging overview of the cultural perspective on human development, with illustrations from pre-natal development to adulthood. A key feature is the broad coverage of theoretical and methodological issues which have relevance to this truly interdisciplinary field of enquiry encompassing developmental psychology, cultural anthropology and comparative sociology.

The text is organized into five coherent parts: Part 1: Developmental theory and methodology; Part 2: Analysis of environments for human development

Part 3:

This major new textbook by Jaan Valsiner focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Intended for students from undergraduate level upwards, the book provides a wide-ranging overview of the cultural perspective on human development, with illustrations from pre-natal development to adulthood. A key feature is the broad coverage of theoretical and methodological issues which have relevance to this truly interdisciplinary field of enquiry encompassing developmental psychology, cultural anthropology and comparative sociology.

The text is organized into five coherent parts: Part 1: Developmental theory and methodology; Part 2: Analysis of environments for human development

Part 3:

Introduction
How Do We Create Knowledge of Cultural Human Development
PART ONE: DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
Stability and Flow in Human Experience
Philosophical Preliminaries
The Developmental Approach
Theoretical Bases of Developmental and Cultural Psychology
Culture and Development
Developmental Methodology in Cultural Development PslÓ}