Cultivating Minds: Identity as Meaning-Making Practice
Author:   Urs Fuhrer ,  Jaan Valsiner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415307130


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   20 November 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Cultivating Minds: Identity as Meaning-Making Practice


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Author:   Urs Fuhrer ,  Jaan Valsiner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780415307130


ISBN 10:   0415307139
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   20 November 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Part 1. Identity and the Significance of Meaning. The Semiotic Mediation of the Self. The Self as Act. Part 2. Identity through Culture. The Rediscovery of Georg Simmel's Work on Culture. Simmelian Cultivation: The Mutuality of the Person-culture Process. Part 3. The Cultivating Minds Paradigm. Identity, Culture, and Development Under Transactional Issues. Cultivating Meanings as Mediating Possibilities for the Self. Behavior Settings as Media for Children's Cultivation. The Writing on the Wall: Cultural Piracy to Struggle with the Self.

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Urs Fuhrer is Professor and Chair for Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology at the Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg (Germany). His major research interest is the role of culture in human development, specifically the relation between family education and child development, identity formation and violence within the family.

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