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The Emergence of Self in Educational Contexts

Theoretical and Empirical Explorations

  • Introduces a completely new construct in educational and developmental psychology
  • Presents a number of empirical qualitative studies on functional and dysfunctional processes in diverse school contexts
  • Combines theory, field study and practices in a new way
  • Provides critical insights for innovators and policy-makers in education

Part of the book series: Cultural Psychology of Education (CPED, volume 8)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction: The Construct of Educational Self

    • Giuseppina Marsico, Luca Tateo
    Pages 1-14
  3. The Reconfiguration of the Educational Self in the Context of Higher Education

    • Sueli Barros da Ressurreição, Sonia Maria da Rocha Sampaio
    Pages 61-77
  4. Emergence of Self Situated at an Institution

    • Mogens Torkil Jensen
    Pages 79-92
  5. Teacher’s Role in the Dynamics Between Self and Culture

    • Angela Uchoa Branco, Sandra Ferraz Freire, Mónica Roncancio Moreno
    Pages 107-125
  6. School Complaints and the Educational Self: Openings for the Medicalization of School Difficulties

    • Patrícia Carla Silva do Vale Zucoloto, Gilberto Lima dos Santos, Maria Virgínia Machado Dazzani
    Pages 127-141
  7. Teacher Participation in the Constitution of the Educational Self

    • Cícero Ramon Cunha de Jesus, Marilena Ristum
    Pages 143-159
  8. The Production of School Complaints in a Public School: Meanings and Practices

    • Eliseu de Oliveira Cunha, Maria Virgínia Machado Dazzani, Polyana Monteiro Luttigards, Saulo Roger Moniz Pacheco Lima
    Pages 181-195

About this book

This book represents the first extensive introduction to the emerging construct of Educational Self. The new concept describes a specific dimension of the Self, which is elaborated in the course of a person’s school life and is reactivated anytime the person is involved in an educational activity, whether as a student, teacher or parent.
The Educational Self (ES) approach was created by the volume editors and is currently being developed at various universities in Europe and Latin America as a way of understanding and operating in educational contexts. 
The book presents the theoretical framework and the empirical developments of the construct, paving the way for further applications in education. The main locations of the empirical studies are Denmark, Italy, Brazil, Portugal and Colombia, but the research network is steadily expanding to other countries, so that the concept here can be generalized to different cultural contexts.
The book addresses a range of contexts and moments in school life. The editors’ introduction presents the construct of ES, the opportunities for further theoretical and empirical developments of the concept, and its potential applications in educational practices. In the remainder of the volume, ES is explored for different age groups (from children to adolescents to higher education), different actors (peers, teachers, parents and their interactions), different contexts (formal education, special institutions, school-family relationships) and different phenomena (disruptive behavior, special needs, value orientation, school failure, etc.). All the studies share a qualitative idiographic approach, which is characteristic of the perspective of cultural psychology in which the ES construct was elaborated. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human, Philosophic and Education Sciences (DISUFF), University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

    Giuseppina Marsico

  • Department of Communications and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

    Luca Tateo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Emergence of Self in Educational Contexts

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations

  • Editors: Giuseppina Marsico, Luca Tateo

  • Series Title: Cultural Psychology of Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98602-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98601-2Published: 15 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07513-2Published: 20 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98602-9Published: 27 September 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2364-6780

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-6799

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Cross Cultural Psychology

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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