Human development in the life course : melodies of living / / Tania Zittoun (Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland) [and five others] [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Zittoun Tania
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 430 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 155
• Soggetto topico: Developmental psychology
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part 1. Time for development -- part 2. Space for development -- part 3. Beyond time and space : imagination.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on philosophy, the history of psychology and the natural sciences, this book proposes a new theoretical foundation for the psychology of the life course. It features the study of unique individual life courses in their social and cultural environment, combining the perspectives of developmental and sociocultural psychology, psychotherapy, learning sciences and geronto-psychology. In particular, the book highlights semiotic processes, specific to human development, that allow us to draw upon past experiences, to choose among alternatives and to plan our futures. Imagination is an important outcome of semiotic processes and enables us to deal with daily constraints and transitions, and promotes the transformation of social representation and symbolic systems - giving each person a unique style, or 'melody', of living. The book concludes by questioning the methodology and epistemology of current life course studies.
• Titolo autorizzato: Human development in the life course
• ISBN: 1-139-89015-8; 1-107-46032-8; 1-107-45884-6; 1-107-56238-4; 0-521-10669-9; 1-107-47176-1; 1-107-46809-4; 1-139-01980-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829400303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II