Human development in context: The study of risk and resilience - Couverture souple

Schoon, Ingrid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178277159X ISBN 13 : 9781782771593

Editeur : Institute of Education Press, 2016

Synopsis

An Inaugural Professorial Lecture Human development takes place through processes of progressively more complex and reciprocal interactions between a growing individual and a changing context. Using evidence from longitudinal data, following individual lives over time, it is possible to gain some insights into how children and their families respond to socio-structural opportunities and constraints and to what extent they are able to respond adaptively and steer the course of their lives despite exposure to adversity. Focusing on the experiences of children and young people growing up in conditions of socio-economic hardship I introduce a developmental-contextual approach for the study of resilience, challenging assumptions of necessary developmental constancy, as well as the idea that experiences in early childhood set up an invariant life path. Change for better or worse can occur across the entire life path, shaped by continuous interactions between a developing individual and a changing socio-historical context.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ingrid Schoon is Professor in Human Development and Social Policy at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Institute of Education Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178277159X
• ISBN 13: 9781782771593
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
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• Personne responsable: non disponible