Culture and Human Development

Jaan Valsiner is Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology.  And of The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology (2012). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences  (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize in Germany for his interdisciplinary work on human development, and Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

• IntroductionHow Do We Create Knowledge of Cultural Human DevelopmentPART ONE: DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY AND METHODOLOGYStability and Flow in Human ExperiencePhilosophical PreliminariesThe Developmental ApproachTheoretical Bases of Developmental and Cultural PsychologyCulture and DevelopmentDevelopmental Methodology in Cultural Development PsychologyPART TWO: ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTS FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENTStructure and Dynamics of Family/Kinship Groups and Marriage FormsCultural Organization of Human Life EnvironmentsPART THREE: CULTURAL ORGANIZATION OF PREGNANCY AND INFANCYCultural Nature of Parent-Offspring Differentiation during PregnancyNewborn and Infant DevelopmentThe Cultural-Ecological NichePART FOUR: EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENTThe Second Year of Life and beyondSelf Regulation and Participation in Early ChildhoodPART FIVE: ENTERING THE WORLD OF ACTIVITIES - CULTURALLY RULEDPersonal Participation and Its Social-Institutional GuidanceAdolescenceMoving through into Adulthood