Making of the Future: The Trajectory Equifinality Approach in Cultural Psychology (Advances in Cultural Psychology) (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1681235471 ISBN 13: 9781681235479

Publisher: Information Age Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

Making of the Future is the first English-language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology―TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists. In the decade that follows it has become a guiding approach for cultural psychology all over the World. Its central feature is the reliance on irreversible time as the basis for understanding of cultural phenomena and the consideration of real and imaginary options in human life course as relevant for the construction of personal futures.

The book is expected to be of interest in researchers and practitioners in education, developmental and social psychology, developmental sociology and history. It has extensions for research methodology in the focus on different sampling strategies.

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About the Author

Tatsuya Sato, Ritsumeikan University.

Naohisa Mori, Sapporo Gakuin University.

Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681235471
• ISBN 13: 9781681235479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Sato Tatsuya, Mori Naohisa, Valsiner Jaan