Handbook of Developmental Psychology

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 - Jaan Valsiner and Kevin J Connolly The Nature of Development The Continuing Dialogue of Processes and Outcomes PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL APPROACHES AND PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT Probabilistic Epigenesis of Development - Gilbert Gottlieb Genetics and the Development of Brain and Behavior - Douglas Wahlsten Developmental Psychology and the Neurosciences - Sidney J Segalowitz and Louis A Schmidt Historical Contexts for Development - Hideo Kojima PART TWO: PRENATAL AND INFANT DEVELOPMENT Prenatal Psychological and Behavioral Development - Peter Hepper On the Development of Perception and Action - Claes von Hofsten Early Cognitive Development - Jonas Langer et al Ontogeny and Phylogeny Tool Use and Tool Making - Ad W Smitsman and Raoul M Bongers A Developmental Action Perspective Social Relations and Affective Development in the First Two Years in Family Contexts - Kurt Kreppner PART THREE: DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY CHILDHOOD The Role of Language in Human Development - Nancy Budwig Social Development in Cultural Contexts - Angela Branco Cooperative and Competitive Interation Patterns in Peer Relations Strengths and Weaknesses of Cognition over Preschool Years - Eduardo Mart[ac]i Development of Play - Anthony D Pellegrini and Peter Smith Developmental Disorders - Brian Hopkins An Action-Based Account PART FOUR: DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE CHILDHOOD Contemporary Families as Context for Development - Peter Stratton Schooling and the Development of Literacy - David Olson and Janette Pelletier Memory and Knowledge Development - Wolfgang Schneider and David Bjorklund PART FIVE: DEVELOPMENT IN PRE-ADOLESCENCE AND ADOLESCENCE Children's Relationships and Development of Person-Context Relations - Thomas Kindermann Morality and Context - Usha Menon A Study of Hindu Understandings From Early Attachment Relations to Adolescent and Adult Organization of Self - Harke Bosma and Coby Gerlsma PART SIX: DEVELOPMENT IN ADULTHOOD Adult Cognitive Development - Kurt Fischer, Zheng Yan and Jeffrey Stewart Dynamics in the Development Web Goal-Directed Activities and Life-Span Development - Jeanette A Lawrence and Agnes E Dodds Dialogical Processes and Development of the Self - Hubert J Hermans and Els Hermans-Jansen Cognitive Processes in Ageing - Patrick Rabbitt et al Wisdom - Ursula M Staudinger and Ines Werner Its Social Nature and Lifespan Development PART SEVEN: METHODOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT Qualitative Methodology - Jonathan Smith and Fraser Dunworth Quantitative Models for Developmental Processes - John R Nesselroade and Peter C M Molenaar Dynamic Systems Approaches and Modeling of Developmental Processes - Paul van Geert

Valsiner and Connolly did a remarkable job of compiling and editing this comprehensive yet manageable volume. The list of authors is impressive both in expertise and in breadth. This work truly represents the most up-to-date thinking about human development from both scientific and cultural viewpoints. . . . The work is effective both in delineating current thinking in the area of human development and in outlining the historical groundwork on which current research has been built. . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *