Meaning-Making for Living

The Emergence of the Presentational Self in Children’s Everyday Dialogues

By:

Koji Komatsu

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Paperback / softback

Series:

SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

November 22nd, 2019

Author

Koji Komatsu

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2019

Illustrations

12 Illustrations, color; 13 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 144 p. 25 illus., 12 illus. in color.

Pages

144

Series

SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology

ISBN-13

9783030199258

Product ID

30319752

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