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  • THINKING IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
    JAAN VALSINER
    "This book explores the development of ideas in psychology's past. It is the initial volume in a series intended to shape such ideas into a valuable resource for the discipline's future. Scientists, in general, are known to ignore their own history, considering it to be a graveyard of failures. In Thinking in Psychological Science, selected ideas of key figures in the cognitive...

    $1,179.00

  • STRIVING FOR THE WHOLE
    JAAN VALSINER
    This unusual collection explores the development of ideas in psychology's past, and shapes them into a valuable resource for ideas in the discipline's future, with particular emphasis on holistic traditions in psychology. Diriwochter and Valsiner focus on developmental holistic psychology as advocated by the second school of Leipzig in Germany. Although largely neglected, this ...

    $1,179.00

  • GENETIC THEORY OF REALITY
    JAMES MARK BALDWIN / JAAN VALSINER
    James Mark Baldwin left a legacy that has yet to be fully examined, one with profound implications for science and the humanities. In some sense it paralleled that of his friend Charles Sanders Peirce, whose semiotics became understood only a century later. Baldwin was trying to make sense of complex biological and social processes that only now have come into the limelight as ...

    $1,339.00

  • GIAMBATTISTA VICO AND THE NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
    LUCA TATEO / JAAN VALSINER
    Giambattista Vico (1668�1744) was an Italian philosopher, rhetorician, and historian. As one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, he exerted tremendous influence on the social sciences. He was the first to stress cultural and linguistic dimensions in the development of both the human mind and social institutions. Although his ideas on the relationship between mind and cu...

    $1,059.00

  • A GUIDED SCIENCE
    JAAN VALSINER
    That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new. Jaan Valsiner fills in the wide background of scholarship on the history of science, the recent focus on social studies of sciences, and the cultural and cognitive analyses of knowledge making. The theoretical scheme that he uses to explain the phenomena of social guidance of sc...

    $1,179.00

  • RETHINKING CREATIVITY
    GLĂVEANU, VLAD PETRE / GILLESPIE, ALEX / VALSINER, JAAN
    Despite more than half a century of psychological research on creativity we are still far from a clear understanding of the creative process, its antecedents and consequences and, most of all, the ways in which we can effectively support creativity. This is primarily due to a narrow focus on creative individuals isolated from culture and society. Rethinking Creativity proposes ...

    $1,399.00

  • AN INVITATION TO CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
    JAAN VALSINER
    An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology – that of semiotic dynamics. Based on historical work from many different fields in the social and behavioural sciences, and the humanities too, this perspective applied to cultural psychology suggests that human beings ar...

    $947.56

  • CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT WITHIN SOCIAL CONTEXT
    WINEGAR, LUCIEN T. / VALSINER, JAAN
    These companion volumes bring together research and theoretical work that addresses the relations between social context and the development of children. They allow for the in-depth discussion of a number of vital metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological issues that have emerged as a result of increased investigation in these areas. For example: Which methodological and...

    $1,039.00

  • CULTURE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
    JAAN VALSINER
    This major new textbook by Jaan Valsiner focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Intended for students from undergraduate level upwards, the book provides a wide-ranging overview of the cultural perspective on human development, with illustrations from pre-natal development to adulthood.A key feature is the broad coverage of theoretica...

    $1,489.02

  • A GUIDED SCIENCE
    JAAN VALSINER
    That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their surrounding social world is not new. Jaan Valsiner fills in the wide background of scholarship on the history of science, the recent focus on social studies of sciences, and the cultural and cognitive analyses of knowledge making. The theoretical scheme that he uses to explain the phenomena of social guidance of sc...

    $1,139.00