TY - BOOK AU - Komatsu,Koji TI - Meaning-Making for Living: The Emergence of the Presentational Self in Children's Everyday Dialogues T2 - SpringerBriefs in Psychology SN - 978-3-030-19926-5 PY - 2019/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature KW - Child & developmental psychology KW - bicssc KW - Cognition & cognitive psychology KW - Educational psychology KW - Psychological methodology KW - Social, group or collective psychology KW - The self, ego, identity, personality KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Cross-cultural psychology KW - Developmental psychology KW - Education-Psychology KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Psychological measurement KW - Psychology KW - Psychology-Methodology KW - Self N1 - Open Access N2 - This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children's selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds upon the innovative theoretical notion of the Presentational Self, developed by the author over the last decade. The book illustrates how the observation of children's meaning construction in their everyday lives becomes a starting point for theoretical and empirical inquiries into child development and gives a framework that promotes new inquiries in this area. The book describes the Presentational Self Theory as a sense of how the notion of the Self is being worked upon in everyday life encounters. Chapters feature in-depth analyses of exchanges between adults and children in the Japanese cultural context. Meaning-Making for Living will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the fields of cognitive, social, developmental, educational, and cultural psychology UR - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23069 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0bddd213-2adb-4356-9c82-c30d80b1962a/1007089.pdf ER -