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Title

Developmental tasks : towards a cultural analysis of human development / edited by Jan J.F. ter Laak, Peter G. Heymans, and Andrei I. Podolʹskij.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Laak, Jan J. F. ter.
• Heymans, P. G.
• Podolʹskiĭ, A. I. (Andreĭ Ilʹich)

Description

xi, 273 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Behavioral and cognitive development is considered as ordered change within an individual during his/her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons or progression in stages. The concept 'developmental task' is elaborated in such a way as to stress situations that interacting individuals create and meet with, and which elicit transitions in behavior and, by implication, in the self. The concept is compared and proved to be compatible with the dynamic concepts of Russian activity theory and of the Galperinian concept of meaningful learning. The idea of a 'developmental task' and its dynamic characteristics is tentatively, but fruitfully, applied to different research topics, such as age-related crises, acquisition of a moral status, achieving educational independence, assessment of readiness for school, acquiring peer status, the acquisition of standards of morality in relation to self-image and to the moral atmosphere of the school or profession, and the experience of ageing. The book is intended for psychologists, educators and advanced students.

Subject

• Developmental psychology > Congresses
• Child psychology > Congresses
• Developmental psychology > Social aspects > Congresses
• Child psychology > Social aspects > Congresses
• Child development
• Child psychology
• Social ecology
• Psychologie du développement > Congrès
• Enfants > Psychologie > Congrès
• Psychologie du développement > Aspect social > Congrès
• Enfants > Psychologie > Aspect social > Congrès
• Enfants > Développement
• Enfants > Psychologie
• Écologie sociale
• human ecology
• Social ecology
• Child development
• Child psychology
• Child psychology > Social aspects
• Developmental psychology
• Developmental psychology > Social aspects
• Entwicklungspsychologie
• Handlung
• Ontwikkeling (psychologie)
• Culturele aspecten
• Child Development
• Psychology, Child
• Social Environment

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.
• Congress

Note

• "Based on the first meeting of developmental psychologists from Utrecht University and Moscow State University and Moscow Pedagogical Institutes"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Developmental Tasks: A Cultural Analysis of Human Development / P.G. Heymans -- 2. Bridging the Gap Between Developmental and Learning Studies: The Concept of Developmental Tasks / A.I. Podolskij -- 3. The Theory of Vygotsky and his School and Developmental Tasks / L.F. Obuchova -- 4. Assessment of Child Development: Vygotsky's Age-Related Approach / G.V. Burmenskaya -- 5. Personal Age Development as the Object of Psychological Investigation / K.N. Polivanova -- 6. Paradoxes in Learning and Development / J. Boom -- 7. Children's Acquisition of the Concept of Mind and the Assignment of a Moral Status to Others: Learning from Social Interaction in Real and Artificial Cognitive Systems / T. Olthof -- 8. The Role of Interaction in Mental Action Formation / O.B. Chesnokova -- 9. The Influence of Folk Psychology on a Baby's Personality / A.A.N. Cruts -- 10. The Child's Initiative in Building up Cooperation: The Key to Problems of Children's Independence / G.A. Zuckerman.
• 11. Adult Egocentrism and Adult-Child Interaction / S.V. Zaytsev -- 12. Adolescent Sociometric Status in a Developmental Task Perspective / H.W. van Boxtel -- 13. Task Attitude of Preschoolers: Developmental Diagnosis / M. Timmermans -- 14. Preschoolers' Acquirement of Competences in Factor Combining and Factor Interaction / A.N. Poddiakov -- 15. Information Integration of 6 to 12 Year Olds in Distributive Justice / A.E. Aleva -- 16. Acquirement of Illness Concepts: Perception and Evaluation of Physical Sensations / E. Hosli -- 17. Development of Concepts of Truth and Lying: A Developmental Task / J.J.F. ter Laak -- 18. The Self-Image as a Determinant of Moral Behavior in Children / S.G. Jacobson -- 19. Moral Culture in Institutions and Individuals' Moral Performance: The Need for Moral Developmental Tasks / D. Brugman -- 20. Wisdom as High Level Epistemic Cognition & Aging: A Developmental Task Analysis / G.M. Brugman.

ISBN

• 0792329058
• 9780792329053

LCCN

94012546

OCLC

• ocm30475195
• 30475195
• SCSB-2032357

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library