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Action Perspectives on Human Development

Brandtstädter, Jochen·2007·Handbook of Child Psychology
DOI 10.1002/9780470147658.chpsy0110
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This chapter centers on the multiple ways in which personal and collective actions, embedded in cultural and historical contexts, form—and are formed by—development over the life span. Section 1 considers the rise of action perspectives in developmental research, with a particular emphasis on the mutually constitutive relations between development, culture, and processes of self-regulation and intentional self-development. Section 2 delineates different action-theoretical approaches and discusses related conceptual or definitional issues. In the third section, notions of contextual embeddedness, plasticity, regularity, universality in development are addressed from an action perspective. Sections 3 and 4 focus more closely on activities and component processes of intentional self-development, as well as on the development of beliefs and competences related to the control of personal development over the life span.

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Brandtstädter, J.
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