Culture and the development of children's action : a theory of human development /
Jaan Valsiner.
- Second edition.
- xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-358) and index.
Developmental and Nondevelopmental Orientations in Psychology, and their Contexts -- Basic Assumptions Underlying Psychological Research -- Crossroads of the Deductive and Inductive Lines of Knowledge Construction in Psychology -- Theoretical Bases for a Theory of "Bounded Indeterminacy" of Development -- The Theoretical System -- Actions in Culturally Organized Contexts: Settings of Mealtimes -- Cultural Regulation and the Development of Children's Action at Mealtimes -- Cultural Autoregulation of the Self: Semiotic Mediation of the Intrapsychological Realm -- Conclusions: "Bounded Variability" in Human Psychological Development, and the Methodology for Its Study -- References -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.