The Self on the Move

Passing Through Institutional Settings

Edited by:
Koji Komatsu, Osaka Kyoiku University

A volume in the series: Perspectives on Human Development. Editor(s): Isabelle Albert, University of Luxembourg. Jaan Valsiner, Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University. Koji Komatsu, Osaka Kyoiku University.

Published 2024

This volume attempts to delineate the construction of the self in institutional settings of the contemporary world, with the topics ranging from young children to adults and from the micro level to the macro level of human development. The chapters focus on the activities or practices that characterize institutional settings, stressing their dialogical nature that enables understanding human development and the self as what emerge from the dialectic tension of these events—that is, conflicts or contradictions.

Discussions included in this volume are different from the principal ways of evaluating institutions in the modern world—i.e., quantitative reports of achievements or merits—but strongly promote further dialogue among researchers and practitioners. This volume offers a new perspective to anyone who are interested in how we psychologically and socially develop in contemporary society, including teachers or practitioners who actually work with children and youths.

CONTENTS
Introduction — The Indivisibility of Selves and Institutional Settings: Natural but Elusive, Koji Komatsu. Series Editors’ Preface — Opening the “Black Box”: Development Through Institutions Revealed, Isabelle Albert and Jaan Valsiner. Modes of Engagement: A Sociocultural Approach to Institutions, Martina Cabra and Tania Zittoun. Becoming a School Student: The Role of Institutional Anticipations in the Process of Positioning, Paula Cavada-Hrepich and Mónica Roncancio-Moreno. The Role of Repetition and Redundancy in Meaning-Making: Focusing on the Construction of Children’s Selves and School Education, Koji Komatsu. Moving Towards the Future: Horizons of Self-Projection in Face of Near Finitude, Maria Cláudia Santos Lopes de Oliveira and Cláudio Márcio Araújo. The Creative Rituals and the Self-Construction of the Convicts, Sirlene Lopes de Miranda, Ramiro German Gonzalez Rial, and Danilo Silva Guimarães. ”If I Get Tangled up With Two Guys Who Want Me to Do Something Bad ...”: Social Skills Training in a Juvenile Offender Rehabilitation Facility in Japan, Hideaki Matsushima. The Long Haul and Golden Moments, Mogens Jensen. Considering the Systemic Organization of the Mobile Self: At Home and in Immigration, Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia. About the Contributors.