Destiny and Development - A Mayan Midwife and Town

Zusatztext Developing Destinies delivers a fascinating! real-life account whilst also bringing theory alive - an engrossing page-turner. Informationen zum Autor Barbara Rogoff is UCSC Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a Kellogg Fellow, and Editor of Human Development. Her books Apprenticeship in Thinking (OUP, 1990), Learning Together (OUP, 2001), and The Cultural Nature of Human Development (OUP, 2003) have receivedawards from the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. Her current book, Destiny and Development, deepens the ideas presented in her previous books, building on her three decades of research on human development in a Mayan community in Guatemala. Klappentext Destiny and Development is an engaging narrative of one remarkable person's life and the life of her community that blends psychology, anthropology, and history to reveal the integral role that culture plays in human development. Zusammenfassung Destiny and Development is an engaging narrative of one remarkable person's life and the life of her community that blends psychology, anthropology, and history to reveal the integral role that culture plays in human development.

Product details

• Authors: Rogoff, Barbara Rogoff, Rogoff Barbara
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.04.2011
• EAN: 9780195319903
• ISBN: 978-0-19-531990-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Child Development in Cultural Context Series; Child Development in Cultural
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Social, group or collective psychology