Child and developmental psychology Books

Book SynopsisEste livro nasce de um movimento de divulgaçao do trabalho de psicologos dialogicos-culturais que vem, ha tempos, construindo saberes sobre as relaçoes entre os campos da psicologia e educaçao. Apos anos de trabalhos conjuntos no Brasil, Dinamarca, Suíça, Italia, dentre outros países, esta obra em Língua Portuguesa foi produzida, tendo em vista a relevante contribuiçao que a psicologia dialogica e cultural oferece ao cenario educacional das escolas. Os capítulos teoricos e empíricos, produzidos de modo didatico e dialogico, discutem as experiencias dos autores e suas ideias orientadas para um novo campo do saber, denominado "Psicologia Cultural da Educaçao". Temas como praticas dialogicas, crenças e valores democraticos, processos de desenvolvimento humano e educacionais, dentre outros, encontram espaço para analise e problematizaçao, a fim de contribuir ao vasto campo da psicologia do desenvolvimento e daeducaçao.ENGLISH TRANSLATION:This book came out as part of the efforts of cultural dialogical psychologists guided to the knowledge construction about the relations between psychology and education. After years of working together, scientists from Brazil, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, among other countries, collaborate to present this book written in Portuguese, due to the relevant contribution of cultural dialogical psychology to the field of education within school contexts. The authors produced theoretical-empirical chapters using a didactical and dialogical language to discuss their ideas and experiences, which compose the field known as the "Cultural Psychology of Education". Topics such as dialogical practices, democratic values and beliefs and topics concerning education and human development, among others, are therefore analyzed and discussed in order to contribute to the vast field encompassing both developmental psychology and education.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an integrative perspective on home or Heimat showing that it is much more than the place we were born or where we live. This book brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on what home is and can be from different viewpoints.The chapters invite the reader to face challenging questions of what we learn about Heimat, when it is taken from us, threatened, left on purpose or when we set out on the journey to find one. The chapters are written by psychologists throughout, but are expanded in perspective by comments from the groups of people featured in the chapters, who are thus given their own voice. The book ends with a suggestion how all the different perspectives can be unified in the framework of general model of cultural psychology."All in all—the reader of this volume gains an access to the most intricate phenomenon of human ways of being—that of home. Impossible to define in terms of the scientific lore of psychology, intuitively understandable in everyday life, and basis for deep desires if the feeling of home is lost."This book will be rewarding reading for professionals and students from cultural psychology, cultural and psychological anthropology, sociology, and related disciplines, asking the question of what home is and how individuals can be supported in finding it.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an integrative perspective on home or Heimat showing that it is much more than the place we were born or where we live. This book brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on what home is and can be from different viewpoints.The chapters invite the reader to face challenging questions of what we learn about Heimat, when it is taken from us, threatened, left on purpose or when we set out on the journey to find one. The chapters are written by psychologists throughout, but are expanded in perspective by comments from the groups of people featured in the chapters, who are thus given their own voice. The book ends with a suggestion how all the different perspectives can be unified in the framework of general model of cultural psychology."All in all—the reader of this volume gains an access to the most intricate phenomenon of human ways of being—that of home. Impossible to define in terms of the scientific lore of psychology, intuitively understandable in everyday life, and basis for deep desires if the feeling of home is lost."This book will be rewarding reading for professionals and students from cultural psychology, cultural and psychological anthropology, sociology, and related disciplines, asking the question of what home is and how individuals can be supported in finding it.

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