What is “natural” about “natural contexts”?: Cultural construction of human development (and its study)

Jaan Valsiner

doi:10.1174/02103709460578909

What is “natural” about “natural contexts”? Cultural construction of human development (and its study)

Jaan Valsiner^*

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Centre for Cultural Psychology

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Abstract

The issue of using natural contexts to study human development is crucial for theoretical innovation within developmental psychology. It is argued that the opposing natural versus laboratory contexts is a culturally constructed artifact. All laboratory (or any other specially set-up contexts) are versions of the naturalistic contexts, within which developmentalists can access the redundant processes of development that are constrained by conditions in the per son-environment transaction.

Original language	English
Journal	Infancia y Aprendizaje
Volume	17
Issue number	66
Pages (from-to)	11-19
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0210-3702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1174/02103709460578909
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1994

Keywords

development
naturalistic context
researcher‘s role
Social ecology

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