Showing papers by "Jaan Valsiner published in 1987"

Culture and the development of children's action : a cultural-historical theory of developmental psychology

Abstract: This book provides a synthesis of research on a topic of increasing importance in developmental and social psychology - a general theory of child development that takes into account the culturally guided nature of child-environment relationships. The author presents an integration of theory with psychological phenomenology of child development backed by evidence from language research literature in psychology and anthropology as well as from his own research, which offers an appropriate basis for understanding child development in many cultural contexts. Because of the book's structural-dynamic perspective on child development it will be of value to both researchers and practitioners together with postgraduate students in developmental and child psychology, education and anthropology.

Process Structure of Parent-Child-Environment Relations and the Prevention of Children's Injuries

Abstract: The reasoning of caregivers is discussed in the context of preventing childhood accidents. This reasoning process, which uses knowledge about children's behavior in an environment, leads to appropriate preventive actions on the part of the caregiver. Illustrative examples of parents interacting with children are presented. Language: en

Adults' assessments of children's accident risks

Abstract: It was hypothesized that the parents, the child, other people, the environment, and chance are salient causes in adults' causal schemata of accidents in childhood and that their assessments of the likelihood of such accidents in connection with the supervision of children depend on the strength attributed to these causes. In support of the hypothesis, ratings by 72 adult nonparents (undergraduates) of the likelihood that children in different ages (2–4, 5–6, 7–9, and 10–12 yr.) become seriously injured by poisonings, drownings, traffic accidents, home fires, medical mistreatments, and tornadoes correlated with their ratings of the strength attributed to the causes. The analysis also showed differences in the causal schemata for the different types of accidents with respect to how much causal strength was attributed to the parents and the child as a function of the child's age.

Dualisme in de psychologie van de emotie. Een analyse van Vygotskij

Abstract: Due to a lack of emphasis on the problem of mindbody dualism in contemporary psychological literature, that problem remains unsolved and constitutes an obstacle in the way of fruitful development of psychology. In this article, the authors describe Lev Vygotsky's analysis of the psychology of emotions of his time, and his effort to find a solution to the mind/ body problem by turning to the philosophical heritage of Spinoza. It is concluded that Vygotsky's contribution 10 the solution of the mind-body problem, despite its inadequacies, has not lost its relevance for psychology in the five decades that have passed since his time.