Children's Development Within Social Context: Volume II: Research and Methodology

by Winegar; Lucien T.

• ISBN13: 9780805808643
• ISBN10: 0805808647
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-04-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

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 statistical procedures are appropriate and applicable to studies of social context and processes of development? Should the nature of social context be reconceptualized as something more than different levels of some social independent variable? Are theories of development that do not consider social context incomplete? Will the increasingly finer definitions of social context lead to extreme situationism and contextualism? As developmental theory and investigation continues to address relationships between social and cognitive development, it becomes increasingly important that issues concerning social context be elaborated and discussed.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Clarifying Context: Theoretical And Methodological Considerations	p. 1
Context, Modularity, And The Cultural Constitution Of Development	p. 5
Scaffolding and Self-Scaffolding: Central Aspects of Development	p. 33
Appendix	p. 48
Appendix	p. 50
Reflecting on the Experimental Context: Parent's Interpretations of the Education Motive During Teaching Episodes	p. 53
Acknowledgments	p. 72
the Hermeneutic Investigation of Peer Relations	p. 75
Acknowledgments	p. 110
Acknowledgments	p. 110
Investigating Contexts: Empirical Endeavors	p. 113
The Socioaffective Context Of Joint Cognitive Activity	p. 117
Acknowledgments	p. 150
Social and Cultural Influences on Children's Collaborative Interactions	p. 155
References	p. 177
Possible Selves and Academic Achievement	p. 181
Children's Moral Understanding: Developmental and Social Contextual Determinants	p. 203
References	p. 225
Constructing Self And Peer Culture: A Narrative Perspective On Adolescent Risk Taking	p. 229
Re-Contextualizing Context: A Discussion	p. 247
Re-Contextualizing Context: Analysis of Metadata and Some Further Elaborations	p. 249
References	p. 266
Author Index	p. 267
Subject Index	p. 275
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