Child Development Within Culturally Structured Environments, Volume 4: Construction of Psychological Processes in Interpersonal Communication

Hardcover, vi + 252 pages, NOT ex-library. A clean and bright copy with unmarked text and firm binding, free of inscriptions and stamps. Published without a dust jacket. -- This volume brings together a collection of papers centred on the theme of the psychological functions that are built up by communication in the developing child. It is part of a series that aims to integrate social and cognitive development research on the developing child within his/her environment. The approach strives to overcome impasses that are outgrowths of two traditional themes in psychology. First is the fundamental general biological issue of the contributions of the organism and its environment to the development of the former. The second is how we can understand social development in human ontogeny, and in which ways (if any) human social development differs from that of other species. -- Contents: Introduction / Maria C.D.P. Lyra & Jaan Valsiner; Pt. I. Historical Introduction: 1. The Construction of Child-Rearing Theories in Early Modern to Modern Japan / Hideo Kojima; Pt. II. Constructions of Psychological Process: From Infancy to Early Childhood: 2. Innovation in Social Games / Susan A. Holt, Alan Fogel & Rebecca M. Wood; 3. Towards a Pragmatical Conception of the Object: The Construction of the Uses of the Objects by the Baby in the Prelinguistic Period / Christiane Moro & Cintia Rodriguez; 4. Gestures, Words, and Objects: An analysis of Possible Configurations Within Interactive Dynamics / Ana Luiza B. Smolka & Maria Nazare da Cruz; 5. Making of a Personal Place at 18 Months of Age / Vera M.R. Vasconellos & Jaan Valsiner; 6. Peer Interactions and the Appropriation of Gender Representations by Young Children / Zilma de Moraes Ramos de Oliveira; 7. Dynamic Interplay Between Private and Social Speech: A Microgenetic Approach / Sumedha Gupta; 8. American, Estonian, and Swedish Mothers' Regulation of Their Children's Discourse Construction / Karin Junefelt & Tita Tulviste; Pt. III. Theoretical Elaborations for Sociogenesis: 9. Interaction, Regulation, and Correlation in the Context of Human Development, Conceptual Discussion and Empirical Examples / Ana Carvalho, Ameha Imperio-Hamburger & Marta Isabel Pedrosa; 10. Cooperation, Competition, and Related Issues: A Co-Constructive Approach / Angela Branco; 11. A Model for Identity and Change in Relationships From a Personal-Cultural Point of View / Gorjana Litinovic; 12. Reflections on the Dynamics of Meaning Making: Communication Process at the Beginning of Life / Maria C.D.P. Lyra; Author Index; Subject Index.…