Developmental Tasks

Towards a Cultural Analysis of Human Development

By: Jan J.F. ter Laak (Editor), Peter G. Heymans (Editor), Andrei I. Podol'skij (Editor)

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Behavioral and cognitive development is considered as ordered change within an individual during his/her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons or progression in stages. The concept 'developmental task' is elaborated in such a way as to stress situations that interacting individuals create and meet with, and which elicit transitions in behavior and, by implication, in the self. The concept is compared and proved to be compatible with the dynamic concepts of Russian activity theory and of the Galperinian concept of meaningful learning. The idea of a 'developmental task' and its dynamic characteristics is tentatively, but fruitfully, applied to different research topics, such as age-related crises, acquisition of a moral status, achieving educational independence, assessment of readiness for school, acquiring peer status, the acquisition of standards of morality in relation to self-image and to the moral atmosphere of the school or profession, and the experience of ageing. The book is intended for psychologists, educators and advanced students.

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Preface
List of Contributors
Developmental Tasks: A Cultural Analysis of Human Development	p. 3
Bridging the Gap Between Developmental and Learning Studies: The Concept of Developmental Tasks	p. 35
The Theory of Vygotsky and his School and Developmental Tasks	p. 41
Assessment of Child Development: Vygotsky's Age-Related Approach	p. 51
Personal Age Development as the Object of Psychological Investigation	p. 61
Paradoxes in Learning and Development	p. 71
Children's Acquisition of the Concept of Mind and the Assignment of a Moral Status to Others: Learning from Social Interaction in Real and Artificial Cognitive Systems	p. 83
The Role of Interaction in Mental Action Formation	p. 91
The Influence of Folk Psychology on a Baby's Personality	p. 107
The Child's Initiative in Building up Cooperation: The Key to Problems of Children's Independence	p. 125
Adult Egocentrism and Adult-Child Interaction	p. 141
Adolescent Sociometric Status in a Developmental Task Perspective	p. 151
Task Attitude of Preschoolers: Developmental Diagnosis	p. 167
Preschoolers' Acquirement of Competences in Factor Combining and Factor Interaction	p. 173
Information Integration of 6 to 12 Year Olds in Distributive Justice	p. 187
Acquirement of Illness Concepts: Perception and Evaluation of Physical Sensations	p. 197
Development of Concepts of Truth and Lying: A Developmental Task	p. 203
The Self-Image as a Determinant of Moral Behavior in Children	p. 225
Moral Culture in Institutions and Individuals' Moral Performance: The Need for Moral Developmental Tasks	p. 237
Wisdom as High Level Epistemic Cognition and Aging: A Developmental Task Analysis	p. 259
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