Books written by Jaan Valsiner

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  Cultural Psychology of Human Values

  The study was oriented to unravel communication and metacommunication processes and strategies taking place along the flux of interactions (e.g., Barrios & Branco, 2008; Branco, 2003, 2006, 2012; Neves-Pereira, 2005; Palmieri, 2003).

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  Human Development in the Life Course: Melodies of Living

  Field theory and experiment in social psychology: concepts and meth- ods. American Journal of Sociology, 44, 868–96. (1942). Field theory and learning. In N. B. Henry (ed.), The Forty-First Yearbook of the National Society for the Study ...

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  Handbook of Developmental Psychology

  Comprehensive and authoritative this handbook pushes back the frontiers of the study of human development in one single volume.

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  Comparisons in Human Development: Understanding Time and Context

  This book's distinguished contributors share the view that the study of development must consider processes that operate over time and are regulated by varying physical, biological, social, and cultural contexts.

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  Striving for the Whole: Creating Theoretical Syntheses

  This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology's past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline's future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology.

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  Culture and Human Development

  These axioms are organized by general knowledge - constructing orientations of the researchers , which are here called frames of reference . D Z m 3 O Z m I o Standardized methods ' Rating scales Frames of reference in researchers ...

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  Methodological Thinking in Psychology: 60 Years Gone Astray?

  This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in different fields of psychology – cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, cultural psychology, methodology of psychology.

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  Dynamic Process Methodology in the Social and Developmental Sciences

  Takhia raised him with goats-milk, and she beamed with pride that “the children call me anna (mother) now. ... between parents for approximately 2 years; if this is broken, it is believed that a child thus conceived will have a defect.

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  Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology

  This book makes a decisive break from the post-modernist theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. It restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences.

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  Cultures of Care in Aging

  This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors.

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  Culture and the Development of Children's Action: A Theory of Human Development

  Drawing upon sources as varied as linguistic philosophy, structural anthropology, thermodynamics, and systems theory, as well as the work of many of the leading figures in twentieth-century developmental theory, Valsiner argues convincingly ...

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  Handbook of Developmental Psychology

  This unique reference work will be hugely influential for anyone needing or wishing for a broad, yet enriched understanding of this fascinating subject.

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  The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology

  an inclusive and a disjunctive meaning of “action”: Discursive psychologists might be suspected of only taking words into ... Taking note of those different ways, as I have tried to do in this chapter, is an important first step towards ...

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  The Psychology of Radical Social Change: From Rage to Revolution

  One consequence of this strategy is that individuals with an unclear cultural identity are more likely to join extremist groups. ... Indeed, if no clear cultural identity is established, there is a risk of creating a cultural vacuum, ...

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  Particulars and Universals in Clinical and Developmental Psychology: Critical Reflections - A book honoring Roger Bibace

  They all have different expectations and can, yet, all deal with the same objective. Communication and building relationships seem to be vital – this book aims to support this quest by moving from the universal to the particular.

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  Cultural Realities of Being: Abstract ideas within everyday lives

  In C. S. Lakshmi, Fish in a dwindling lake (pp. ix–xx). New Delhi: Penguin. Kabeer, N. (1994). Reversed realities: Gender hierarchies in development thought. New York: Verso. Kapur, D., Khan, S. and Radhakrishnan, A. (1999).

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  I Activate You To Affect Me

  The author develops a difference between the representation of poetry (literal interpretation of the meaning) and its ... Poetic and metaphorical expressions condense meanings that in formal language must be expressed through a complex ...

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  An Invitation to Cultural Psychology

  Jaan Valsiner is the founding editor of the major journal in the field, Culture & Psychology, and Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology.

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  The Cambridge Handbook of Social Representations

  De Rosa (1987, 1994) developed an extensive research programme on the social representations of madness by children and teenagers. She asked them to draw a mad person and to draw like a mad person. Three main categories concentrated the ...

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  The Cambridge Handbook of Social Representations

  This Handbook provides an overview of these core aspects and brings together theoretical strands and developments in the theory, some of which have become pillars in the social sciences in their own right.