Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the Presentational Self Theory
- Explores activities that are related to the structure of children's lives and dialectic tensions that are essential for children's meaning construction
- Offers a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary theory of child development
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology (BRIEFSTHEORET)
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This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children’s selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds upon the innovative theoretical notion of the Presentational Self, developed by the author over the last decade.
The book illustrates how the observation of children’s meaning construction in their everyday lives becomes a starting point for theoretical and empirical inquiries into child development and gives a framework that promotes new inquiries in this area. The book describes the Presentational Self Theory as a sense of how the notion of the Self is being worked upon in everyday life encounters. Chapters feature in-depth analyses of exchanges between adults and children in the Japanese cultural context.
Meaning-Making for Living will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of cognitive, social, developmental, educational, and cultural psychology.
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About the author
Koji Komatsu is an associate professor of psychology at Osaka Kyoiku University. The inquiry into the process of children’s meaning construction and the emergence of their selves presented in this book is the result of his longstanding interest in human development in society. In addition to this subject, he inquires into several topics concerning culture and mind that also describe our meaning construction in mundane lives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Meaning-Making for Living
Book Subtitle: The Emergence of the Presentational Self in Children’s Everyday Dialogues
Authors: Koji Komatsu
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19926-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19925-8Published: 22 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19926-5Published: 14 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 144
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Self and Identity, Educational Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation