Developmental Tasks: Towards a Cultural Analysis of Human Development

Preface. Part One: The Explanation of Development: the Concept Developmental Task. 1. Developmental Tasks: a Cultural Analysis of Human Development; P.G. Heymans. 2. Bridging the Gap between Developmental and Learning Studies: the Concept of Developmental Tasks; A.I. Podol'skij. 3. The Theory of Vygotsky and his School and Developmental Tasks; L.F. Obuchova. 4. Assessment of Child Development: Vygotsky's Age-Related Approach; G.V. Burmenskaya. 5. Personal Age Development as the Object of Psychological Investigation; K.N. Polivanova. 6. Paradoxes in Learning and Development; J. Boom. Part Two: Developmental Tasks and Social Interaction. 7. Children's Acquisition of the Concept of Mind and the Assignment of a Moral Satus to Others: Learning from Social Interaction in Real and Artificial Cognitive Systems; T. Olthof. 8. The Role of Interaction in Mental Action Formation; O.B. Chesnokova. 9. The Influence of Folk Psychology on a Baby's Personality; A.A.N. Cruts. 10. The Child's Initiative in Building up Cooperation: the Key to Problems of Children's Independence; G.A. Zuckerman. 11. Adult Egocentrism and Adult--Child Interaction; S.V. Zaytsev. 12. Adolescent Sociometric Status in a Developmental Task Perspective; H.W. van Boxtel. Part Three: Developmental Tasks: Specific Competences. 13. Task Attitude of Preschoolers: Developmental Diagnosis; M. Timmermans. 14. Preschoolers' Acquirement of Competences in Factor Combining and Factor Interaction; A.N. Poddiakov. 15. Information Integration of 6 to 12 Year Olds in Distributive Justice; A.E. Aleva. 16. Acquirement of Illness Concepts: Perception and Evaluation of Physical Sensations; E. Hosli. 17. Development of Concepts of Truth and Lying: a Developmental Task; J.J.F. ter Laak. 18. The Self-Image as a Determinant of Moral Behavior in Children; S.G. Jacobson. 19. Moral Atmosphere as a Link between Morality and Moral Behavior in School and Accountants' Practice; D. Brugman. 20. Wisdom as High Level Epistemic Cognition and Aging: a Developmental Task Analysis; G.M. Brugman.