Human Development in the Life Course
eBook - PDF

Human Development in the Life Course

Melodies of Living

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Human Development in the Life Course

Melodies of Living

About this book

Drawing on philosophy, the history of psychology and the natural sciences, this book proposes a new theoretical foundation for the psychology of the life course. It features the study of unique individual life courses in their social and cultural environment, combining the perspectives of developmental and sociocultural psychology, psychotherapy, learning sciences and geronto-psychology. In particular, the book highlights semiotic processes, specific to human development, that allow us to draw upon past experiences, to choose among alternatives and to plan our futures. Imagination is an important outcome of semiotic processes and enables us to deal with daily constraints and transitions, and promotes the transformation of social representation and symbolic systems - giving each person a unique style, or 'melody', of living. The book concludes by questioning the methodology and epistemology of current life course studies.

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Yes, you can access Human Development in the Life Course by Tania Zittoun,Jaan Valsiner,Dankert Vedeler,João Salgado,Miguel M. Gonçalves,Dieter Ferring in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psicología & Psicología del desarrollo. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Figures
  4. Tables
  5. Boxes
  6. Preface: from dispute to collaboration
  7. Introduction: melodies of living
  8. Part I Time for development
  9. 1 Solidity of science and fullness of living: a theoretical exposé
  10. 2 Imagination and the life course
  11. 3 Moving through time: imagination and memory as semiotic processes
  12. 4 Models of time for the life course
  13. Part II Space for development
  14. 5 Social framing of lives: from phenomena to theories
  15. 6 Stability and innovation in adults narrating their lives: insights from psychotherapy research
  16. 7 Paradoxes of learning
  17. Part III Beyond time and space: imagination
  18. 8 We are migrants!
  19. 9 Playing while being serious: the lifelong game of development – and its tools
  20. 10 Playing under the influence: activity contexts in their social functions
  21. 11 ‘Old age’ as living forward
  22. 12 Epilogue: the course of life as a melody
  23. References
  24. Index