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Culture and Human Development

First Edition

March 2000 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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: Cultural organization of pregnancy and infancy;

Part 4: Early childhood development; and Part 5: Entering the world of activities - culturally ruled.


 
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 Psychology
 
PART TWO: ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
 
Structure and Dynamics of Family/Kinship Groups and Marriage Forms
 
Cultural Organization of Human Life Environments
 
PART THREE: CULTURAL ORGANIZATION OF PREGNANCY AND INFANCY
 
Cultural Nature of Parent-Offspring Differentiation during Pregnancy
 
Newborn and Infant Development
The Cultural-Ecological Niche

 
 
PART FOUR: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
 
The Second Year of Life and beyond
 
Self Regulation and Participation in Early Childhood
 
PART FIVE: ENTERING THE WORLD OF ACTIVITIES - CULTURALLY RULED
 
Personal Participation and Its Social-Institutional Guidance
 
Adolescence
Moving through into Adulthood

 

This book is very useful for the learners who go the extra mile and look in greater depth at their subject for the very high marks, so I have listed it as supplemental

Ms Liz Swanson
Early Years Health and Care, South Essex College
February 25, 2016

This is such a well written and informative book providing a wealth of information, leads to other interesting materials and most of all written academically but accessibly too. I even found myself picking it up to read in place of a novel in the evening. I have recommended to others studying Anthropology as it will be a valuable resource. Is a particularly interesting book in regards to Early Year's.

Ms Jane Stevens
Faculty of Society and Health, Bucks New University
January 12, 2014

brilliant book, very informative.

Mrs Lucinda Richardson
Ctr for Tourism,Consumer & Food Studie, Liverpool John Moores University
September 6, 2012

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