{"product_id":"9781579223687","title":"Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship: Exploring the Concept Across Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together new scholarship that expands and refines the concept of self-authorship across cultures. It adopts a constructive-developmental approach to self-evolution that emphasizes the interaction of personal characteristics and contextual influences on individuals' construction of knowledge, identities, and relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObserving how particular individuals make meaning in their personal and social contexts from this point of view enables further study of the intersections of epistemological, intrapersonal, and interpersonal dimensions and how they combine to help adults self-author their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndividual chapters cover subjects from populations as varied as Dutch students, male and female Bedouin and Jewish adolescents, African American male and female adolescents in economically depressed areas of the United States, Latino\/a college students grappling with ethnic identity and dissonance, Australian college females preparing to be childcare workers, and finally a comparative study of Japanese and U.S. college students' epistemic beliefs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe three chapters that constitute the first part of this book articulate the foundational assumptions of constructive-developmental theory, subject-object relations, and holistic development as a basis for understanding the evolution of self-authorship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chapters in Part Two challenge our thinking about the developmental trajectory of self-authorship across cultures of age, gender, and geography, and pose important questions about the need for more cross-cultural collaboration to understand self-authorship development in different cultures and the need to address better measurement and interpretation of results in multiple cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three presents various viewpoints about the role of culture and context in the development of self-authorship and revisits the utility of the subject-object framework in understanding major theoretical questions about development. This section also addresses questions about the challenges and opportunities involved in developing a valid measure of self-authorship that is less time- and expertise-intensive than the in-depth one-on-one interview employed until now. It concludes with an outline of future theoretical and methodological research needed to further our understanding of self-evolution in general and self-authorship in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stylus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300949836016,"sku":"9781579223687","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781579223687_p0.jpg?v=1763799956","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781579223687","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}