Sociogenetic Perspectives on Internalization
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1138996335 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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I am confident that this collection will have a powerfully stimulating effect on developmental studies because it not only brings to light the creative tensions that are to be seen in the approach, but demonstrates the illuminating qualities of the insights that can be drawn from it. —Rom HarreLinacre College, Oxford, Georgetown University, Washington, DCLightfoot and Cox have put together a volume on one of the most important issues in the human sciences today, and they have done so by including some of the best minds on the topic. I do
In contemporary developmental psychology, the process of internalization has become so important that the time is ripe for a book which explicitly addresses the problems it poses. This one is not oriented toward social interactions but toward the symbolic meanings that they express and that children impose on them. Although the chapters in this book deal with age groups from preschool to adolescence, and topics from mathematics to storytelling and from taking risks to making moral judgments, there is one core question which unifies them all: If the growing competence of a child is truly sociogenetic, if it truly grows out from, is supported by, and is dependent upon the social, where is that competence truly located? Bearing a variety of labels--cultural-historical, co-constructionist, dialectical, contextualist, narrative, hermeneutic, and discursive psychologies--and analytic constructs--scaffolding, proleptic instruction, participation, appropriation, and situated activity--contemporary perspectives are showing clear signs of development and differentiation. The issue of how the external world becomes part of the behavioral repertoire of children has been important to psychology from its very beginning, preoccupying theorists from Sigmund Freud to George Herbert Mead. Typically, the methodology involves the microanalysis of videotaped interactions