ABSTRACT

Several recent analyses have focused on how social and cultural factors shape development, but less well understood are the individual constructive processes involved in this interplay. This volume showcases varied theoretical and empirical approaches to how individual, social and cultural factors shape development, and suggests new directions for future scholarship.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Catherine Raeff and Janette B. Benson

part |2 pages

Part I Contexts of development

chapter 1|22 pages

Interaction and development

Accounting for emergence

chapter 2|19 pages

Patterns of culturally meaningful activity

Linking parents’ ideas and parent–child interactions Catherine Raeff

chapter 3|30 pages

Environmental chaos, development and parenting across cultures

Theodore D. Wachs and Feyza C¸orapc¸i

chapter 6|16 pages

The multiple agendas of intersubjectivity in children’s group writing activity

Chikako Toma and James V. Wertsch

part |2 pages

Part II Developing through culturally shaped social interactions

chapter 7|19 pages

Object manipulation in context

Jeffrey J. Lockman

chapter 8|23 pages

The social and cultural context of the development of future orientation

Janette B. Benson, Ayelet Talmi and Marshall M. Haith

chapter 9|26 pages

Level this, Level that

Michael J. Chandler and Bryan W. Sokol

part |2 pages

PART III Some final thoughts

chapter 10|15 pages

Lessons from our infancy

Relationships to self, other, and nature