Culture and Human Development

Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. And of The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology (2012). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in Germany for his interdisciplinary work on human development, and Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Introduction How Do We Create Knowledge of Cultural Human Development PART ONE: DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGY Stability and Flow in Human Experience Philosophical Preliminaries The Developmental Approach Theoretical Bases of Developmental and Cultural Psychology Culture and Development Developmental Methodology in Cultural Development Psychology PART TWO: ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Structure and Dynamics of Family/Kinship Groups and Marriage Forms Cultural Organization of Human Life Environments PART THREE: CULTURAL ORGANIZATION OF PREGNANCY AND INFANCY Cultural Nature of Parent-Offspring Differentiation during Pregnancy Newborn and Infant Development The Cultural-Ecological Niche PART FOUR: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT The Second Year of Life and beyond Self Regulation and Participation in Early Childhood PART FIVE: ENTERING THE WORLD OF ACTIVITIES - CULTURALLY RULED Personal Participation and Its Social-Institutional Guidance Adolescence Moving through into Adulthood