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Heinz Werner and Developmental Science
Springer 2006; US$ 129.99Heinz Werner (1890-1964) was one of the three key developmental psychologists of the 20th century-along with Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. This book is a new exploration of Werner's ideas and their social contexts-in Vienna in his student years, in Hamburg up to 1933, followed by the years of transit as an immigrant to America at times of economic... more...
Culture in Minds and Societies
SAGE India 2007; US$ 75.00Culture in Minds and Societies makes a decisive break from the post-modernist. theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. and restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the uniqueness of all human personal experience from birth to. death, it emphasizes the universality... more...
Culture and Human Development
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 71.00This 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... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 249.99The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions -- for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings -- organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary... more...
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 50.00A unique handbook on human psychology, integrating contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries worldwide. more...
Children's Development Within Social Context
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 103.95These companion volumes bring together research and theoretical work that addresses the relations between social context and the development of children. They allow for the in-depth discussion of a number of vital metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological issues that have emerged as a result of increased investigation in these areas. For example:... more...
Comparisons in Human Development
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 44.00This important volume deals with the issue of how to make comparisons in the field of human development. more...
Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences
Springer 2009; US$ 179.99All psychological processes - like biological and social ones - are dynamic. Phenomena of nature, society, and the human psyche are context bound, constantly changing, and variable. This handbook brings into one framework various directions of construction of methodology of the dynamic processes that exist in the social sciences. more...
Education and Technology
Lexington Books 2007; US$ 36.99There are numerous publications about education and technology. What is missing is a balanced appraisal of the values and cognitive skills technology promotes and those it devalues. This is important for education because the way we teach influences the way children think, and it is of more general importance for the evolution of society. If we wait... more...
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