Human development in the life course : melodies of living / Tania Zittoun (Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland) [and five others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zittoun, Tania, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 430 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

part 1. Time for development

part 2. Space for development

part 3. Beyond time and space : imagination.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-89015-8

1-107-46032-8

1-107-45884-6

1-107-56238-4

0-521-10669-9

1-107-47176-1

1-107-46809-4

1-139-01980-5

OCLC:

862077633