ISBN:
9780521769389
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (446 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Human Development in the Life Course : Melodies of Living
DDC:
155
Keywords:
Developmental psychology
;
Developmental psychology
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Shows how individuals develop a unique style or 'melody' of living, beyond physical and social constraints
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Preface: from dispute to collaboration; Introduction: melodies of living; Meaning-making and imagination in the centre; Traditional lifespan psychology and our proposition; On what this enquiry is based; Structure of the book; Part I Time for development; 1 Solidity of science and fullness of living: a theoretical exposé; The outside view; Epigenetics and epigenesis; Previous epigenetic thinking in the history of psychology; Epigenesis and the changing of the change; How epigenesis works: the epigenetic landscape metaphor; Unity in diversity
Description / Table of Contents:
Why population statistics cannot illuminate the studies of life course development: where ergodicity failsBeyond ergodicity and linear causality; The inside view: the organismic perspective; The origin of semiotic function; From shared experiences to imagination; Inside and outside mutualities; The landscape metaphor revisited: the inside and the outside; Moving toward a dynamic understanding of the life course; Dynamic systems theory (DST); Open systems that operate far from equilibrium; DST and life-course development; Attractors in the life course; Attractors vs. equilibrium
Description / Table of Contents:
Resources in the life courseLevels of change; Stability and change; Self-organization, autopoiesis and bricolage in the life course; Summary: developmental science of the human life course; 2 Imagination and the life course; Childhood memories, pretend-play and futures; Imagination in adolescence; The many ways of adulthood; Getting older - the many faces of ageing; Summary: from personal stories to a psychology of the life course; 3 Moving through time: imagination and memory as semiotic processes; Reality and imagination; Living through AS-IS and AS-IF; Productive nature of fictions
Description / Table of Contents:
Memorizing - and forgetting - as tools for the futureSummary: processes of imagination in the life course; 4 Models of time for the life course; Models of time; Constructing the life course; The generative lifecycle model; Living proleptically; Anchoring life-course points; Multilinearity of life courses; Summary: a non-naïve model of time for the life course; Part II Space for development; 5 Social framing of lives: from phenomena to theories; The reality - of the real, and of the constructed; Making meaning together: Karl Bühler's organon model
Description / Table of Contents:
The person-environment relationship: process of mutualitySpace for living: creating the Umwelt; Kurt Lewin's look at life space; From the theory of frames to dynamic positioning of the self; The 'rock of reality': institutions and settings; Putting personal positions back in the frame; Developing through frames and the development of frames; Development of social spaces: trajectories in the making; The trajectory equifinality model (TEM); Summary: spaces for development; 6 Stability and innovation in adults narrating their lives: insights from psychotherapy research; Narrative meaning-making
Description / Table of Contents:
On the roots of a narrative approach to psychology
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