Innovating Genesis
Microgenesis and the Constructive Mind in Action
A volume in the series: Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development. Series Editor(s): Jaan Valsiner, Clark University
Published 2008
Cultural psychology is currently in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the most central aspect of any science—its methodology—undergoes revolutionary transformation. Yet in this book we see careful continuity with the past of the discipline. The orientation to study processes of emergence was well prepared by the Ganzheitspsychologie tradition in early twentieth century. If we all have learned something about the world since then it is the inevitable quality of the whole that transcends its parts. Scientists have tried to grasp the general notion of such wholes—yet recurrently regressing to the easy illusion that one can reduce the complexities of the in vivo events to the scrutinizes in vitro. By looking to the history of how holistic ideas might help our present investigations, this book demonstrates how contemporary science has something to learn from its own history.
The editors of this volume have managed to bring together a creative international team of scholars whom they have guided to be on target of the content matter of the book—innovating the genesis of the methods for the study of psychological emergence.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword: Genesis of Methodological Innovation, Jaan Valsiner. Editors' Introduction, Emily Abbey and Rainer Diriwächter. PART I: MICROGENESIS OF VISUAL GESTALT PERCEPTION. From Visual Actual Genesis and Ontogenesis Toward a Theory of Man, Lothar Kleine-Horst. Developing "development" in Theory and Method: A Commentary on Kleine-Horst (2007), Brady Wagoner. PART II: MEANING MAKING ABOUT VIOLENCE. The Making of Nonviolence: Affective Self-Regulation in a Shooting Game, Nicole M. Capezza and Jaan Valsiner. The Need for Microgenetic Analysis of Semiotic Fields in social psychology, Gyuseog Han. PART III: SYMBOLIC SELF-SOOTHING. Processing Process: A Microgenetic Look at Microgenetic Analysis, Valerie M. Bellas and James P. McHale. A Researcher at the Crossroads: A Commentary Upon Processing Process, Carla Cunha. PART IV: DAYDREAMS. Morpheus Awakened: Microgenesis in Daydreams, Stacey Pereira and Rainer Diriwächter. The Microgenetic Study of Daydreaming, Jeanette Lawrence and Agnes E. Dodds. PART V: EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF SUBJECT-OBJECT RELATIONS. Production of Signs and Meaning-Making Process in Triadic Interaction at the Prelinguistic Level: A Task for Sociocultural Analysis—The Case of Ostension, Christiane Moro and Cintia Rodríguez. Challenging Questions in the Study of Early Semiotic Activity in Children, Selma Leitão. General Conclusions, Emily Abbey and Rainer Diriwächter. About the Authors.
RELATED CATEGORIES
> Cultural Psychology
RELATED TITLES
Arguing and knowing: A Developmental Approach (In Development)
Becoming Other: From Social Interaction to Self-Reflection
Challenges and Strategies for Studying Human Development in Cultural Contexts
Otherness in Question: Development of the Self
Transitions: Symbolic Resources in Development
Semiotic Rotations: Modes of Meanings in Cultural Worlds
Discovering Cultural Psychology: A Profile and Selected Readings of Ernest E. Boesch
Trust and Distrust: Sociocultural perspectives
Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically
Relating to Environments: A New Look at Umwelt
Living in Poverty: Developmental Poetics of Cultural Realities
Methodological Thinking in Psychology: 60 Years Gone Astray?
We use Paypal for online orders. Click here for more information about ordering from IAP.
Your "10-200" box is empty! Start filling it up and get a great deal on 10 books. Click here if you need help.
10 books to go! || Click here for details
SHARE IT!
Link to this book:
Copy and paste the link below
