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oapen-20.500.12657-230692024-03-22T19:23:37Z Meaning-Making for Living Komatsu, Koji Psychology Cognitive psychology Developmental psychology Self Identity (Psychology) Educational psychology Education—Psychology Cross-cultural psychology Psychology—Methodology Psychological measurement thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMB Psychological methodology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMC Child, developmental and lifespan psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMH Social, group or collective psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMR Cognition and cognitive psychology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMS Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNC Educational psychology 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. 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T09:02:12Z 2020-04-01T09:02:12Z 2019 book 1007089 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23069 eng SpringerBriefs in Psychology application/pdf n/a 1007089.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030199265 Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-030-19926-5 10.1007/978-3-030-19926-5 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 144 Cham open access
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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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