The Self on the Move

Passing Through Institutional Settings

Koji Komatsu

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9798887307961
• Edition: 0

This volume attempts to delineate the construction of the self in institutional settings of the contemporary world, with the topics ranging from young children to adults and from the micro level to the macro level of human development. The chapters focus on the activities or practices that characterize institutional settings, stressing their dialogical nature that enables understanding human development and the self as what emerge from the dialectic tension of these events—that is, conflicts or contradictions.Discussions included in this volume are different from the principal ways of evaluating institutions in the modern world—i.e., quantitative reports of achievements or merits—but strongly promote further dialogue among researchers and practitioners. This volume offers a new perspective to anyone who are interested in how we psychologically and socially develop in contemporary society, including teachers or practitioners who actually work with children and youths.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• The Self on the Move
• Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
• CONTENTS
• SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE: OPENING THE “BLACK BOX”
• INTRODUCTION: THE INDIVISIBILITY OF SELVES AND INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS
• CHAPTER 1: MODES OF ENGAGEMENT
• CHAPTER 2: BECOMING A SCHOOL STUDENT
• CHAPTER 3: THE ROLE OF REPETITION AND REDUNDANCY IN MEANING-MAKING
• CHAPTER 4: MOVING TOWARDS THE FUTURE
• CHAPTER 5: THE CREATIVE RITUALS AND THE SELF-CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONVICTS
• CHAPTER 6: ”IF I GET TANGLED UP WITH TWO GUYS WHO WANT ME TO DO SOMETHING BAD . . .”
• CHAPTER 7: THE LONG HAUL AND GOLDEN MOMENTS
• CHAPTER 8: CONSIDERING THE SYSTEMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE MOBILE SELF
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS