商品描述
This book provides a fresh and critical perspective on psychology by challenging its foundational assumptions through the lens of Cultural Psychology. Using a Brazilian metaphor of "peeling a pineapple" or descascar o abacaxi it unpacks the complexities of epistemological renewal in psychology--questioning taken-for-granted concepts, reconstructing theoretical frameworks, and emphasizing the role of culture in shaping human experiences. Inspired by a seminar course of the same title, this book explores four essential themes in psychology: Care and Education, Mental Health and Therapy, Self and Identity, and Relationships and Emotions. Each chapter revisits these areas from the ground up, highlighting their cultural underpinnings and questioning taken-for-granted assumptions. The book showcases discussions and reflections that emerged from classroom debates, emphasizing the importance of meaning-making and developmental perspectives in psychology. Epistemological renewal is at the heart of this book. It refers to the process of reevaluating, updating, and transforming the ways knowledge is produced, justified, and disseminated within psychology and the broader human sciences. By questioning dominant paradigms, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives, and engaging with diverse cultural practices, this volume challenges mainstream psychological approaches that often overlook meaning-making processes and the socio-cultural contexts of human development. Just as peeling a pineapple requires patience and precision to access its core, epistemological renewal demands intellectual curiosity, reflexivity, and a willingness to deconstruct established paradigms. By peeling back the layers of conventional psychological constructs, the authors expose the limitations of universalist assumptions and propose alternative pathways for knowledge production.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書提供了一個新穎且批判性的心理學觀點，透過文化心理學的視角挑戰其基礎假設。使用巴西的隱喻「剝菠蘿」或 descascar o abacaxi，本書揭示了心理學中認識論更新的複雜性——質疑理所當然的概念、重建理論框架，並強調文化在塑造人類經驗中的角色。本書靈感來自同名的研討課程，探討心理學中的四個基本主題：關懷與教育、心理健康與治療、自我與身份，以及關係與情感。每一章從基礎重新檢視這些領域，突顯其文化根基並質疑理所當然的假設。本書展示了從課堂辯論中產生的討論與反思，強調意義建構和發展觀點在心理學中的重要性。認識論的更新是本書的核心。它指的是重新評估、更新和轉變知識在心理學及更廣泛的人文科學中生產、證明和傳播的方式。透過質疑主流範式、整合跨學科的觀點，並與多元文化實踐互動，本書挑戰了常常忽視意義建構過程和人類發展社會文化背景的主流心理學方法。正如剝菠蘿需要耐心和精確以接觸其核心，認識論的更新也需要智識好奇心、自我反思，以及解構既定範式的意願。通過剝開傳統心理學構建的層次，作者揭示了普遍主義假設的局限性，並提出知識生產的替代途徑。
作者簡介
Nandita Chaudhary taught at the University of Delhi, Lady Irwin College from 1982 - 2017. She has been a Fulbright scholar at the Psychology Department, Clark University, USA. Nandita has participated in international collaborations in the area of culture, children's development and family studies. Nandita is the author of `Listening to Culture: Constructing reality from everyday talk' (2004, Sage), and has co-edited five volumes and authored several publications. She is actively involved in public awareness campaigns regarding cultural issues in parenting. From March 2023, Nandita has been appointed as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, for a period of four years. Karen Carolina is a licensed psychologist and a Master's student in Psychology, specializing in Developmental Transitions and Educational Processes at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. Since 2020, she has been a member of the research group Investigations in Cultural Psychology: Culture, Language, Transitions, and Developmental Trajectories (CULTS - UFBA). In 2023, she participated in the Research-Tandem program linked to the Master's in Special Needs Education at the University of Oslo, conducting research on dual minority inclusion. Her research interests include self and identity, language, and their intersections with cultural and developmental processes. Jaan Valsiner is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology. He is currently Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published and edited around 40 books, the most pertinent of which are The guided mind (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1998), Culture in minds and societies (New Delhi: Sage, 2007), and Invitation to Cultural Psychology (London: Sage, 2014). He has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany, and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017, for his interdisciplinary work on human development, and Senior Fulbright Lecturing Award in Brazil 1995-1997. He has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Japan, Australia, Estonia. Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
南迪塔·喬杜哈里（Nandita Chaudhary）於1982年至2017年在德里大學的艾爾文女士學院（Lady Irwin College）任教。她曾是美國克拉克大學（Clark University）心理學系的富布賴特學者。南迪塔參與了有關文化、兒童發展和家庭研究的國際合作。她是《傾聽文化：從日常對話中建構現實》（Listening to Culture: Constructing reality from everyday talk，2004年，Sage）的作者，並共同編輯了五本書籍，還發表了多篇論文。她積極參與有關育兒文化議題的公共意識宣傳活動。自2023年3月起，南迪塔被任命為巴伊亞聯邦大學（Federal University of Bahia）心理學研究所的訪問教授，任期四年。
卡倫·卡羅琳娜（Karen Carolina）是一名持牌心理學家，並在巴伊亞聯邦大學（UFBA）攻讀心理學碩士學位，專攻發展過渡和教育過程。自2020年以來，她成為文化心理學研究小組的成員，該小組專注於文化、語言、過渡和發展軌跡（CULTS - UFBA）。在2023年，她參加了與奧斯陸大學特殊需求教育碩士課程相關的研究雙人計畫，進行有關雙重少數群體包容的研究。她的研究興趣包括自我與身份、語言及其與文化和發展過程的交集。
詹·瓦爾辛納（Jaan Valsiner）是一位文化心理學家，擁有穩定的發展公理基礎，並將其應用於任何心理或社會現象的分析。他是Sage期刊《文化與心理學》（Culture & Psychology）的創始編輯（1995年）。目前，他是丹麥奧爾堡大學（Aalborg University）的文化心理學尼爾斯·波爾教授（Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology）。他已出版和編輯約40本書籍，其中最相關的包括《引導的心智》（The guided mind，劍橋，馬薩諸塞州：哈佛大學出版社，1998年）、《心智與社會中的文化》（Culture in minds and societies，新德里：Sage，2007年）和《文化心理學的邀請》（Invitation to Cultural Psychology，倫敦：Sage，2014年）。他曾獲得1995年德國亞歷山大·馮·洪堡獎（Alexander von Humboldt Prize）和2017年漢斯·基利安獎（Hans-Kilian-Preis），以表彰他在人類發展方面的跨學科工作，並於1995年至1997年獲得巴西的高級富布賴特講座獎。他曾在巴西、日本、澳大利亞、愛沙尼亞、德國、意大利、盧森堡、英國和荷蘭擔任訪問教授。
