Stability and Change in Development: A Study of Methodological Reasoning - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803938071 ISBN 13: 9780803938076

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1991

Synopsis

This volume explores the major methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of human development with the aim of integrating these heterogeneous methods. Each contributor either summarizes a major methodological perspective within development psychology - for example, developmental mechanisms, developmental differences that vary between individuals and developmental changes that are shared by most people - or provides a commentary on the preceding contributor′s summary.

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About the Author

Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology.  And of The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology (2012). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences  (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in Germany for his interdisciplinary work on human development, and Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0803938071
• ISBN 13: 9780803938076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Asendorpf Jens, Valsiner Jaan