Jürgen Straub

A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology’s purview. Wherever questions about the development, structure, and function of the concept of time have been posed – for example by Piaget and other founders of genetic structuralism – they have been concerned predominantly with concepts of "physical", chronometrical time, and related concepts (e.g., "velocity"). All the contributions to the present volume attempt to close this gap. A larger number are especially interested in the narration of stories. Overviews of the relevant literature, as well as empirical case studies, appear alongside theoretical and methodological reflections. Most contributions refer to specifically historical phenomena and meaning-constructions. Some touch on the subjects of biographical memory and biographical constructions of reality. Of all the various affinities between the contributions collected here, the most important is their consistent attention to issues of the constitution and representation of temporal experience.

Narration, Identity, and Historical Consciousness

A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our intensified experience of contingency and difference, has until now remained largely outside psychology's purview. Wherever questions about the development, structure, and function of the concept of time have been posed - for example by Piaget and other founders of genetic structuralism - they have been concerned predominantly with concepts of physical, chronometrical time, and related concepts (e.g., velocity). All the contributions to the present volume attempt to close this gap. A larger number are especially interested in the narration of stories. Overviews of the relevant literature, as well as empirical case studies, appear alongside theoretical and methodological reflections. Most contributions refer to specifically historical phenomena and meaning-constructions. Some touch on the subjects of biographical memory and biographical constructions of reality. Of all the various affinities between the contributions collected here, the most important is their consistent attention to issues of the constitution and representation of temporal experience.

Katja Sabisch

Anna Sieben

Der programmatische Gedanke, menschliches Leben durch gezielte Eingriffe verbessern zu können, hat seit der Entstehung der neuzeitlichen Wissenschaften Konjunktur. Das wissenschaftlich-technisch begründete Programm, Menschen machen zu können, reicht von minimalen Manipulationen bis hin zu umfassenden medizinisch-invasiven oder psychotechnischen Eingriffen. Die Implikationen dieser zwiespältigen Fortschrittsgeschichte sind bis heute unzulänglich untersucht worden. Optimierungen des Humanen und damit verbundene Normierungen der Lebens- und Handlungspraxis transformieren den Menschen und unser Bild vom Menschen in vielfältiger Weise. Die Beiträge in diesem Band gehen solchen »Schattenseiten« von Optimierungsprogrammen nach.

Die hellen und die dunklen Seiten humanwissenschaftlicher Optimierungsprogramme

Menschen machen

die psychologische Konstruktion von Zeit und Geschichte

Erzählung, Identität und historisches Bewußtsein

Sandra Plontke

Paul Sebastian Ruppel

Birgit Frey

Flora Mehrabi

Judith Ricken

Der Band erörtert umfassend Theorien, Traditionen und Innovationen im Feld Forschenden Lernens (FL). Die Beispiele reichen von der Physik über die Psychiatrie bis hin zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Soziologie oder Psychologie – und vielen anderen Disziplinen sowie interdisziplinären Projekten – und geben Einblicke in originelle, exzellente Lehr-Lernformate sowie konkrete Veranstaltungen, die über wettbewerbliche Ausschreibungen gefördert und implementiert werden. Sie dokumentieren die faszinierende Vielfalt eines höchst dynamischen Feldes.

Prinzipien, Methoden, Best-Practices an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Forschendes Lernen an Universitäten

Doris Weidemann

Carlos Kölbl

Barbara Zielke

The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive cultural psychology on the other. Contributions to this book discuss recent theoretical and methodological approaches from both fields in order to explore their joint potential for an advancement of the concept of culture, for the theoretical conceptualization and methodical completion of comparative cultural studies and the scientific understanding of cultural difference. This volume includes contributions by Ernest E. Boesch, Kenneth J. Gergen, Rom Harré, Gustav Jahoda and Jaan Valsiner.

Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology

Pursuit of Meaning

Jürgen Straub

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