Social Relations in Human and Societal Development

Editors' Preface Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: The Role of Social Relations in Human and Societal Development; Charis Psaltis, Alex Gillespie and Anne-Nelly-Perret-Clermont PART I: SOCIAL RELATIONS IN COGNITIVE AND SOCIO-MORAL DEVELOPMENT: PIAGET AND BEYOND IN EDUCATION 2. Education for Democracy: Cooperation, Participation, and Civic Engagement in the Classroom; Wolfgang Edelstein 3. The Development of Intersubjectivity: Cognitive and Affective Aspects in Socio-Moral Reasoning; Monika Keller 4. The Architecture of Social Relationships and Thinking Spaces for Growth; Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont 5. Genetic Social Psychology: From Microgenesis to Ontogenesis, Sociogenesis...and back; Charis Psaltis PART II: SOCIAL RELATIONS AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION: INTERGROUP CONTACT AND REFLECTION 6. Non-transformative Social Interaction; Alex Gillespie 7. Conflict Transformation and Homo-diplomacy; Costas Constantinou 8. Social Relations and the Use of Symbolic Resources in Learning and Development; Tania Zittoun PART III: SOCIAL RELATIONS IN ECONOMIC CULTURES AND FINANCIAL CRISIS: SOCIAL, CROSS-CULTURAL, AND CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 9. The Role of Economic Culture in Social Relationships and Interdependence; Ayse Uskul 10. Social Simulations as a Tool for Understanding Individual, Cultural, and Societal Change; Deborah Downing Wilson and Michael Cole 11. Social Relations, the Financial Crisis and Human Development; Stefano Passini 12. The Importance of Social Relations for Human and Societal development; Charis Psaltis, Alex Gillespie and Anne-Nelly-Perret-Clermont