The Self on the Move: Passing Through Institutional Settings - Paperback

by Koji Komatsu (Editor)

This volume attempts to delineate the construction of the self in institutional settings of the contemporary world, with the topics ranging from young children to adults and from the micro level to the macro level of human development. The chapters focus on the activities or practices that characterize institutional settings, stressing their dialogical nature that enables understanding human development and the self as what emerge from the dialectic tension of these events-that is, conflicts or contradictions.